News Editorials: Towards Summarizing Long Argumentative Texts (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Using news summarization, we aim to target opinionated articles with a well-defined argumentation structure. |
| Approach: | They present a corpus of carefully curated summaries for 266 news editorials. |
| Outcome: | The summarization of opinionated articles with a well-defined argumentation structure is evaluated using a tailored annotation scheme. |
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