Perceived Text Quality and Readability in Extractive and Abstractive Summaries (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Summarisation systems are limited and reflect human judgements poorly, resulting in expensive and inconsistent evaluation methods. |
| Approach: | They conducted an online survey on extractive and abstractive summaries using Swedish news data and used them to produce summary. |
| Outcome: | The summarisation models were trained on Swedish news data and tested on extractive and abstractive summaries. |
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