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This paper explores whether enhancing temporal reasoning capabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs) can improve the quality of timeline summarisation, the task of summarising long texts containing sequences of events, such as social media…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Jiayu Song , Mahmud Elahi Akhter , Dana Atzil Slonim , Maria Liakata

Text summarization has been a crucial problem in natural language processing (NLP) for several decades. It aims to condense lengthy documents into shorter versions while retaining the most critical information. Various methods have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Xianjun Yang , Yan Li , Xinlu Zhang , Haifeng Chen , Wei Cheng

Topic models are used to identify and group similar themes in a set of documents. Recent advancements in deep learning based neural topic models has received significant research interest. In this paper, an approach is proposed that further…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Trishia Khandelwal

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have been changing the paradigm of Recommender Systems (RS). However, when items in the recommendation scenarios contain rich textual information, such as product descriptions in online…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Zhi Zheng , Wenshuo Chao , Zhaopeng Qiu , Hengshu Zhu , Hui Xiong

In the age of information overload, content management for online news articles relies on efficient summarization to enhance accessibility and user engagement. This article addresses the challenge of extractive text summarization by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Sajib Biswas , Milon Biswas , Arunima Mandal , Fatema Tabassum Liza , Joy Sarker

As the context limits of Large Language Models (LLMs) increase, the range of possible applications and downstream functions broadens. In many real-world tasks, decisions depend on details scattered across collections of often disparate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Jonathan Roberts , Kai Han , Samuel Albanie

In this paper, we propose Precision-Informed Semantic Modeling (PRISM), a structured topic modeling framework combining the benefits of rich representations captured by LLMs with the low cost and interpretability of latent semantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Connor Douglas , Utkucan Balci , Joseph Aylett-Bullock

This paper presents a novel approach for modeling threaded discussions on social media using a graph-structured bidirectional LSTM which represents both hierarchical and temporal conversation structure. In experiments with a task of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Vicky Zayats , Mari Ostendorf

The ubiquity and value of tables as semi-structured data across various domains necessitate advanced methods for understanding their complexity and vast amounts of information. Despite the impressive capabilities of large language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Deyi Ji , Lanyun Zhu , Siqi Gao , Peng Xu , Hongtao Lu , Jieping Ye , Feng Zhao

Large language models (LLMs) have been well-researched in various long-context tasks. However, the scarcity of long-context summarization datasets hinders progress in this area. To address this, we introduce CNNSum, a multi-scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Lingxiao Wei , He Yan , Xiangju Lu , Junmin Zhu , Jun Wang , Wei Zhang

Meeting summarization has become a critical task since digital encounters have become a common practice. Large language models (LLMs) show great potential in summarization, offering enhanced coherence and context understanding compared to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Frederic Kirstein , Terry Ruas , Bela Gipp

Large language models (LLMs) excel in abstractive summarization tasks, delivering fluent and pertinent summaries. Recent advancements have extended their capabilities to handle long-input contexts, exceeding 100k tokens. However, in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Mathieu Ravaut , Aixin Sun , Nancy F. Chen , Shafiq Joty

To break the context limits of large language models (LLMs) that bottleneck reasoning accuracy and efficiency, we propose the Thread Inference Model (TIM), a family of LLMs trained for recursive and decompositional problem solving, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Hongyin Luo , Nathaniel Morgan , Tina Li , Derek Zhao , Ai Vy Ngo , Philip Schroeder , Lijie Yang , Assaf Ben-Kish , Jack O'Brien , James Glass

The proliferation of online news poses a challenge to extracting structured timelines from unstructured content. While recent studies have shown that Large Language Models (LLMs) can assist Timeline Summarization (TLS), these approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Liancheng Zhang , Xiaoxi Li , Zhicheng Dou

Traditional sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models and other variations of the attention-mechanism such as hierarchical attention have been applied to the text summarization problem. Though there is a hierarchy in the way humans use language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Rajeev Bhatt Ambati , Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay , Prasenjit Mitra

In this paper, we revisit the challenging problem of unsupervised single-document summarization and study the following aspects: Integer linear programming (ILP) based algorithms, Parameterized normalization of term and sentence scores, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Daniel Lee , Rakesh Verma , Avisha Das , Arjun Mukherjee

The availability of large-scale datasets has driven the development of neural models that create summaries from single documents, for generic purposes. When using a summarization system, users often have specific intents with various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Yumo Xu , Mirella Lapata

Reliable evaluation of large language model (LLM)-generated summaries remains an open challenge, particularly across heterogeneous domains and document lengths. We conduct a comprehensive meta-evaluation of 14 automatic summarization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Huyen Nguyen , Haoxuan Zhang , Yang Zhang , Junhua Ding , Haihua Chen

LLMs and RAG systems are now capable of handling millions of input tokens or more. However, evaluating the output quality of such systems on long-context tasks remains challenging, as tasks like Needle-in-a-Haystack lack complexity. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Philippe Laban , Alexander R. Fabbri , Caiming Xiong , Chien-Sheng Wu

With the increasing capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), parallel reasoning has emerged as a new inference paradigm that enhances reasoning robustness by concurrently exploring multiple lines of thought before converging on a final…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Ziqi Wang , Boye Niu , Zipeng Gao , Zhi Zheng , Tong Xu , Linghui Meng , Zhongli Li , Jing Liu , Yilong Chen , Chen Zhu , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang , Enhong Chen