An Exploratory Study on Long Dialogue Summarization: What Works and What’s Next (2021.findings-emnlp)
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Yusen Zhang, Ansong Ni, Tao Yu, Rui Zhang, Chenguang Zhu, Budhaditya Deb, Asli Celikyilmaz, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Dragomir Radev
| Challenge: | Existing models for dialogue summarization focus on extracting the main events of short conversations, but real-world dialogues are difficult to train. |
| Approach: | They propose three strategies to deal with the lengthy input problem and locate relevant information using long dialogue datasets. |
| Outcome: | The retrieve-then-summarize pipeline models yield the best performance on three long dialogue datasets. |
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