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Text summarization tasks commonly employ Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) to fit diverse standard datasets. While these PLMs excel in automatic evaluations, they frequently underperform in human evaluations, indicating a deviation between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Yang Han , Yiming Wang , Rui Wang , Lu Chen , Kai Yu

Withthegrowthofknowledgegraphs, entity descriptions are becoming extremely lengthy. Entity summarization task, aiming to generate diverse, comprehensive, and representative summaries for entities, has received increasing interest recently.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Dongjun Wei , Yaxin Liu , Fuqing Zhu , Liangjun Zang , Wei Zhou , Yijun Lu , Songlin Hu

We present HowSumm, a novel large-scale dataset for the task of query-focused multi-document summarization (qMDS), which targets the use-case of generating actionable instructions from a set of sources. This use-case is different from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Odellia Boni , Guy Feigenblat , Guy Lev , Michal Shmueli-Scheuer , Benjamin Sznajder , David Konopnicki

Exploring the tremendous amount of data efficiently to make a decision, similar to answering a complicated question, is challenging with many real-world application scenarios. In this context, automatic summarization has substantial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Samira Ghodratnama , Mehrdad Zakershahrak , Fariborz Sobhanmanesh

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

Online consumer reviews play a crucial role in guiding purchase decisions by offering insights into product quality, usability, and performance. However, the increasing volume of user-generated reviews has led to information overload,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Muhammad Mufti , Omar Hammad , Mahfuzur Rahman

In this paper, we present a proposal for an unsupervised algorithm, P-Summ, that generates an extractive summary of scientific scholarly text to meet the personal knowledge needs of the user. The method delves into the latent semantic space…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Alka Khurana , Vasudha Bhatnagar , Vikas Kumar

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

Document summarization enables efficient extraction of user-relevant content but is inherently shaped by individual subjectivity, making it challenging to identify subjective salient information in multifaceted documents. This complexity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Parthiv Chatterjee , Shivam Sonawane , Amey Hengle , Aditya Tanna , Sourish Dasgupta , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Personalized opinion summarization is crucial as it considers individual user interests while generating product summaries. Recent studies show that although large language models demonstrate powerful text summarization and evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yanyue Zhang , Yulan He , Deyu Zhou

Personalization plays a critical role in numerous language tasks and applications, since users with the same requirements may prefer diverse outputs based on their individual interests. This has led to the development of various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Jiongnan Liu , Yutao Zhu , Shuting Wang , Xiaochi Wei , Erxue Min , Yu Lu , Shuaiqiang Wang , Dawei Yin , Zhicheng Dou

Automatic medical text simplification plays a key role in improving health literacy by making complex biomedical research accessible to diverse readers. However, most existing resources assume a single generic audience, overlooking the wide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Rohan Charudatt Salvi , Chirag Chawla , Dhruv Jain , Swapnil Panigrahi , Md Shad Akhtar , Shweta Yadav

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

Writing a survey paper on one research topic usually needs to cover the salient content from numerous related papers, which can be modeled as a multi-document summarization (MDS) task. Existing MDS datasets usually focus on producing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Shuaiqi Liu , Jiannong Cao , Ruosong Yang , Zhiyuan Wen

Most of existing extractive multi-document summarization (MDS) methods score each sentence individually and extract salient sentences one by one to compose a summary, which have two main drawbacks: (1) neglecting both the intra and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Moye Chen , Wei Li , Jiachen Liu , Xinyan Xiao , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

Recently, opinion summarization, which is the generation of a summary from multiple reviews, has been conducted in a self-supervised manner by considering a sampled review as a pseudo summary. However, non-text data such as image and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Jinbae Im , Moonki Kim , Hoyeop Lee , Hyunsouk Cho , Sehee Chung

Opinion summarization is expected to digest larger review sets and provide summaries from different perspectives. However, most existing solutions are deficient in epitomizing extensive reviews and offering opinion summaries from various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Han Jiang , Rui Wang , Zhihua Wei , Yu Li , Xinpeng Wang

The exponential growth of textual data has created a crucial need for tools that assist users in extracting meaningful insights. Traditional document summarization approaches often fail to meet individual user requirements and lack…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Samira Ghodratnama , Amin Beheshti , Mehrdad Zakershahrak

Automatically summarizing large text collections is a valuable tool for document research, with applications in journalism, academic research, legal work, and many other fields. In this work, we contrast two classes of systems for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Adithya Pratapa , Teruko Mitamura

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