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| Challenge: | Abstractive text summarization (ATS) requires a long document and short summaries. |
| Approach: | They propose a query strategy for AL in abstractive text summarization that uses uncertainty estimation to reduce model performance. |
| Outcome: | The proposed query strategy improves ROUGE and consistency scores for annotated datasets . it also increases the performance of the model, compared to passive annotation. |
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