Focus on the Action: Learning to Highlight and Summarize Jointly for Email To-Do Items Summarization (2022.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing to-do item generation models focus on generating action mentions to provide more structured summaries of email text. |
| Approach: | They propose a learning to highlight and summarize framework to learn to identify the most salient text and actions and incorporate these structured representations to generate more faithful to-do items. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms baseline models and achieves state-of-the-art performance in terms of evaluation and human judgement. |
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