ExtraPhrase: Efficient Data Augmentation for Abstractive Summarization (2022.naacl-srw)
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| Challenge: | Recent studies indicated that neural methods are governed by the scaling law for the amount of training data. |
| Approach: | They propose a low-cost strategy to augment training data for abstractive summarization tasks by extracting summarized text and paraphrasing it. |
| Outcome: | The proposed strategy outperforms back-translation and self-training and is more cost-efficient when training data is small. |
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