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Lay summarisation aims to produce summaries of scientific articles that are comprehensible to non-expert audiences. However, previous work assumes a one-size-fits-all approach, where the content and style of the produced summary are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Zhihao Zhang , Tomas Goldsack , Carolina Scarton , Chenghua Lin

Automatic text summarization tools have a great impact on many fields, such as medicine, law, and scientific research in general. As information overload increases, automatic summaries allow handling the growing volume of documents, usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Augusto Villa-Monte , Laura Lanzarini , Aurelio F. Bariviera , José A. Olivas

Recently, various neural encoder-decoder models pioneered by Seq2Seq framework have been proposed to achieve the goal of generating more abstractive summaries by learning to map input text to output text. At a high level, such neural models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Yichong Huang , Xiachong Feng , Xiaocheng Feng , Bing Qin

Automatically evaluating the coherence of summaries is of great significance both to enable cost-efficient summarizer evaluation and as a tool for improving coherence by selecting high-scoring candidate summaries. While many different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Julius Steen , Katja Markert

Despite the advances in the abstractive summarization task using Large Language Models (LLM), there is a lack of research that asses their abilities to easily adapt to different domains. We evaluate the domain adaptation abilities of a wide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Anum Afzal , Ribin Chalumattu , Florian Matthes , Laura Mascarell

Plain language summaries (PLSs) are essential for facilitating effective communication between clinicians and patients by making complex medical information easier for laypeople to understand and act upon. Large language models (LLMs) have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yue Guo , Jae Ho Sohn , Gondy Leroy , Trevor Cohen

Cross-lingual science journalism generates popular science stories of scientific articles different from the source language for a non-expert audience. Hence, a cross-lingual popular summary must contain the salient content of the input…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Mehwish Fatima , Tim Kolber , Katja Markert , Michael Strube

The rapid increase in unstructured data across various fields has made multi-document comprehension and summarization a critical task. Traditional approaches often fail to capture relevant context, maintain logical consistency, and extract…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Aditi Godbole , Jabin Geevarghese George , Smita Shandilya

Text summarization is a user-preference based task, i.e., for one document, users often have different priorities for summary. As a key aspect of customization in summarization, granularity is used to measure the semantic coverage between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Ming Zhong , Yang Liu , Suyu Ge , Yuning Mao , Yizhu Jiao , Xingxing Zhang , Yichong Xu , Chenguang Zhu , Michael Zeng , Jiawei Han

Dialogue summarization aims to condense the original dialogue into a shorter version covering salient information, which is a crucial way to reduce dialogue data overload. Recently, the promising achievements in both dialogue systems and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Xiachong Feng , Xiaocheng Feng , Bing Qin

Automatic summarization of natural language is a current topic in computer science research and industry, studied for decades because of its usefulness across multiple domains. For example, summarization is necessary to create reviews such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Marc Everett Johnson

Conventional dialogue summarization methods directly generate summaries and do not consider user's specific interests. This poses challenges in cases where the users are more focused on particular topics or aspects. With the advancement of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Bin Wang , Zhengyuan Liu , Nancy F. Chen

In sensitive domains such as medical and legal, protecting sensitive information is critical, with protective laws strictly prohibiting the disclosure of personal data. This poses challenges for sharing valuable data such as medical reports…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Anthony Hughes , Ning Ma , Nikolaos Aletras

Text summarization models are often trained to produce summaries that meet human quality requirements. However, the existing evaluation metrics for summary text are only rough proxies for summary quality, suffering from low correlation with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Wuhang Lin , Shasha Li , Chen Zhang , Bin Ji , Jie Yu , Jun Ma , Zibo Yi

In text summarization, evaluating the efficacy of automatic metrics without human judgments has become recently popular. One exemplar work concludes that automatic metrics strongly disagree when ranking high-scoring summaries. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Manik Bhandari , Pranav Gour , Atabak Ashfaq , Pengfei Liu

Summarisation of research results in plain language is crucial for promoting public understanding of research findings. The use of Natural Language Processing to generate lay summaries has the potential to relieve researchers' workload and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Oliver Vinzelberg , Mark David Jenkins , Gordon Morison , David McMinn , Zoe Tieges

The new era of technology has brought us to the point where it is convenient for people to share their opinions over an abundance of platforms. These platforms have a provision for the users to express themselves in multiple forms of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Anubhav Jangra , Sourajit Mukherjee , Adam Jatowt , Sriparna Saha , Mohammad Hasanuzzaman

Summarization datasets are often assembled either by scraping naturally occurring public-domain summaries -- which are nearly always in difficult-to-work-with technical domains -- or by using approximate heuristics to extract them from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Alex Wang , Richard Yuanzhe Pang , Angelica Chen , Jason Phang , Samuel R. Bowman

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

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Prompt Engineering have made chatbot customization more accessible, significantly reducing barriers to tasks that previously required programming skills. However, prompt evaluation,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Sam Yu-Te Lee , Aryaman Bahukhandi , Dongyu Liu , Kwan-Liu Ma