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While large language models (LLMs) are increasingly capable of handling longer contexts, recent work has demonstrated that they exhibit the "lost in the middle" phenomenon (Liu et al., 2024) of unevenly attending to different parts of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Vishakh Padmakumar , Zichao Wang , David Arbour , Jennifer Healey

Table summarization is a crucial task aimed at condensing information from tabular data into concise and comprehensible textual summaries. However, existing approaches often fall short of adequately meeting users' information and quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Weijia Zhang , Vaishali Pal , Jia-Hong Huang , Evangelos Kanoulas , Maarten de Rijke

With the rapid advancement of Natural Language Processing in recent years, numerous studies have shown that generic summaries generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) can sometimes surpass those annotated by experts, such as journalists,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Lemei Zhang , Peng Liu , Marcus Tiedemann Oekland Henriksboe , Even W. Lauvrak , Jon Atle Gulla , Heri Ramampiaro

The majority of available text summarization datasets include short-form source documents that lack long-range causal and temporal dependencies, and often contain strong layout and stylistic biases. While relevant, such datasets will offer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Wojciech Kryściński , Nazneen Rajani , Divyansh Agarwal , Caiming Xiong , Dragomir Radev

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) mitigates the hallucination problem of Large Language Models (LLMs) by incorporating external knowledge. Recursive summarization constructs a hierarchical summary tree by clustering text chunks,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Guanran Luo , Zhongquan Jian , Wentao Qiu , Meihong Wang , Qingqiang Wu

From organizing recorded videos and meetings into chapters, to breaking down large inputs in order to fit them into the context window of commoditized Large Language Models (LLMs), topic segmentation of large transcripts emerges as a task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Dimitrios C. Gklezakos , Timothy Misiak , Diamond Bishop

We introduce k-NLPmeans and k-LLMmeans, text-clustering variants of k-means that periodically replace numeric centroids with textual summaries. The key idea, summary-as-centroid, retains k-means assignments in embedding space while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jairo Diaz-Rodriguez

Current research has explored how Generative AI can support the brainstorming process for content creators, but a gap remains in exploring support-tools for the pre-writing process. Specifically, our research is focused on supporting users…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Grace Li , Tao Long , Lydia B. Chilton

Dialogues are a predominant mode of communication for humans, and it is immensely helpful to have automatically generated summaries of them (e.g., to revise key points discussed in a meeting, to review conversations between customer agents…

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been widely applied in summarization due to their speedy and high-quality text generation. Summarization for sensemaking involves information compression and insight extraction. Human guidance in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Xuxin Tang , Eric Krokos , Can Liu , Kylie Davidson , Kirsten Whitley , Naren Ramakrishnan , Chris North

Large language models' reasoning abilities benefit from methods that organize their thought processes, such as chain-of-thought prompting, which employs a sequential structure to guide the reasoning process step-by-step. However, existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Zhenjie Sun , Naihao Deng , Haofei Yu , Jiaxuan You

Existing long-document question answering systems typically process texts as flat sequences or use heuristic chunking, which overlook the discourse structures that naturally guide human comprehension. We present a discourse-aware…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Huiyao Chen , Yi Yang , Yinghui Li , Meishan Zhang , Baotian Hu , Min Zhang

Faceted summarization provides briefings of a document from different perspectives. Readers can quickly comprehend the main points of a long document with the help of a structured outline. However, little research has been conducted on this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Rui Meng , Khushboo Thaker , Lei Zhang , Yue Dong , Xingdi Yuan , Tong Wang , Daqing He

Extensive efforts in the past have been directed toward the development of summarization datasets. However, a predominant number of these resources have been (semi)-automatically generated, typically through web data crawling, resulting in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Sotaro Takeshita , Tommaso Green , Ines Reinig , Kai Eckert , Simone Paolo Ponzetto

Text segmentation aims to divide text into contiguous, semantically coherent segments, while segment labeling deals with producing labels for each segment. Past work has shown success in tackling segmentation and labeling for documents and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Hakan Inan , Rashi Rungta , Yashar Mehdad

This paper provides results of evaluating some text summarisation techniques for the purpose of producing call summaries for contact centre solutions. We specifically focus on extractive summarisation methods, as they do not require any…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Alexandra N. Uma , Dmitry Sityaev

Dialogue is an essential part of human communication and cooperation. Existing research mainly focuses on short dialogue scenarios in a one-on-one fashion. However, multi-person interactions in the real world, such as meetings or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Ming Zhong , Yang Liu , Yichong Xu , Chenguang Zhu , Michael Zeng

Deep LSTM is an ideal candidate for text recognition. However text recognition involves some initial image processing steps like segmentation of lines and words which can induce error to the recognition system. Without segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Anupama Ray , Sai Rajeswar , Santanu Chaudhury

Automatic summarization generates concise summaries that contain key ideas of source documents. As the most mainstream datasets for the news sub-domain, CNN/DailyMail and BBC XSum have been widely used for performance benchmarking. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Yiming Wang , Zhuosheng Zhang , Rui Wang

For Open Source Software (OSS) projects, discussions in Issue Tracking Systems (ITS) serve as a crucial collaboration mechanism for diverse stakeholders. However, these discussions can become lengthy and entangled, making it hard to find…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Saskia Gilmer , Avinash Bhat , Shuvam Shah , Kevin Cherry , Jinghui Cheng , Jin L. C. Guo