Challenge: Unsupervised approaches to extractive summarization rely on notion of sentence importance defined by semantic similarity between a sentence and the document.
Approach: They propose a method to measure relevance and redundancy using PMI between sentences.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms similarity-based methods on news, medical journal articles, and personal anecdotes.

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Challenge: Existing extractive summarization methods tend to select sentences within the same facet, which leads to facet bias.
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Challenge: Recent approaches to extracting salient sentences from source document are naive and lack dependencies between sentences.
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Challenge: Existing approaches to extractive and abstractive summarization rely on large-scale parallel corpora of input text and output summaries for direct supervision.
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Challenge: Existing methods for sentence summarization require a large amount of parallel data for supervision to work.
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Challenge: Existing studies on redundancy are focused on salience alone.
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Challenge: Existing extractive summarization models hardly capture inter-sentence relationships, especially in long documents.
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Challenge: Sentence-level extractive text summarization is difficult to model the importance of sentences.
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