DIONYSUS: A Pre-trained Model for Low-Resource Dialogue Summarization (2023.acl-long)
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| 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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