Challenge: Existing methods for summarizing dialogues lack in taking into account the structure of dialogues and rely heavily on labeled data.
Approach: They propose a pre-trained encoder-decoder model for summarizing dialogues in any new domain.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms existing methods on six datasets and shows ROUGE scores in zero-shot and few-shot settings.

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