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Text summarization is crucial for mitigating information overload across domains like journalism, medicine, and business. This research evaluates summarization performance across 17 large language models (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic,…

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This paper is aimed at evaluating state-of-the-art models for Multi-document Summarization (MDS) on different types of datasets in various domains and investigating the limitations of existing models to determine future research directions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Kushan Hewapathirana , Nisansa de Silva , C. D. Athuraliya

We develop an abstractive summarization framework independent of labeled data for multiple heterogeneous documents. Unlike existing multi-document summarization methods, our framework processes documents telling different stories instead of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Ning Wang , Han Liu , Diego Klabjan

Medical multi-document summarization (MDS) is a complex task that requires effectively managing cross-document relationships. This paper investigates whether incorporating hierarchical structures in the inputs of MDS can improve a model's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Yi-Li Hsu , Katelyn X. Mei , Lucy Lu Wang

While neural sequence learning methods have made significant progress in single-document summarization (SDS), they produce unsatisfactory results on multi-document summarization (MDS). We observe two major challenges when adapting SDS…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Yuning Mao , Yanru Qu , Yiqing Xie , Xiang Ren , Jiawei Han

Graphs that capture relations between textual units have great benefits for detecting salient information from multiple documents and generating overall coherent summaries. In this paper, we develop a neural abstractive multi-document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Wei Li , Xinyan Xiao , Jiachen Liu , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang , Junping Du

With more and more advanced data analysis techniques emerging, people will expect these techniques to be applied in more complex tasks and solve problems in our daily lives. Text Summarization is one of famous applications in Natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Chen Jia-Chen , Guillem Senabre , Allane Caron

Multi-document summarization (MDS) is the task of reflecting key points from any set of documents into a concise text paragraph. In the past, it has been used to aggregate news, tweets, product reviews, etc. from various sources. Owing to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Alvin Dey , Tanya Chowdhury , Yash Kumar Atri , Tanmoy Chakraborty

A critical point of multi-document summarization (MDS) is to learn the relations among various documents. In this paper, we propose a novel abstractive MDS model, in which we represent multiple documents as a heterogeneous graph, taking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Peng Cui , Le Hu

Long documents such as academic articles and business reports have been the standard format to detail out important issues and complicated subjects that require extra attention. An automatic summarization system that can effectively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Huan Yee Koh , Jiaxin Ju , Ming Liu , Shirui Pan

Multi-document summarization entails producing concise synopses of collections of inputs. For some applications, the synopsis should accurately synthesize inputs with respect to a key aspect, e.g., a synopsis of film reviews written about a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Jay DeYoung , Stephanie C. Martinez , Iain J. Marshall , Byron C. Wallace

Obtaining training data for multi-document summarization (MDS) is time consuming and resource-intensive, so recent neural models can only be trained for limited domains. In this paper, we propose SummPip: an unsupervised method for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Jinming Zhao , Ming Liu , Longxiang Gao , Yuan Jin , Lan Du , He Zhao , He Zhang , Gholamreza Haffari

Multi-document summarization (MDS) aims to generate a summary for a number of related documents. We propose HGSUM, an MDS model that extends an encoder-decoder architecture, to incorporate a heterogeneous graph to represent different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Miao Li , Jianzhong Qi , Jey Han Lau

Multi-document summarization is the process of automatically generating a concise summary of multiple documents related to the same topic. This summary can help users quickly understand the key information from a large collection of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Charles Rajan , Nishit Asnani , Shreya Singh

Our analysis of large summarization datasets indicates that redundancy is a very serious problem when summarizing long documents. Yet, redundancy reduction has not been thoroughly investigated in neural summarization. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Wen Xiao , Giuseppe Carenini

Several methods have been proposed for classifying long textual documents using Transformers. However, there is a lack of consensus on a benchmark to enable a fair comparison among different approaches. In this paper, we provide a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Hyunji Hayley Park , Yogarshi Vyas , Kashif Shah

The rapid expansion of information from diverse sources has heightened the need for effective automatic text summarization, which condenses documents into shorter, coherent texts. Summarization methods generally fall into two categories:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Aziz Amari , Mohamed Achref Ben Ammar

We present a novel divide-and-conquer method for the neural summarization of long documents. Our method exploits the discourse structure of the document and uses sentence similarity to split the problem into an ensemble of smaller…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Alexios Gidiotis , Grigorios Tsoumakas

Recent advances in long-context reasoning abilities of language models led to interesting applications in large-scale multi-document summarization. However, prior work has shown that these long-context models are not effective at their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Adithya Pratapa , Teruko Mitamura

The task of automatic text summarization produces a concise and fluent text summary while preserving key information and overall meaning. Recent approaches to document-level summarization have seen significant improvements in recent years…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Gonçalo Raposo , Afonso Raposo , Ana Sofia Carmo