GEMINI: Controlling The Sentence-Level Summary Style in Abstractive Text Summarization (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing models that mimic human summarization techniques are difficult to imitate. |
| Approach: | They propose an adaptive model that integrates a rewriter and a generator to mimic the sentence rewriting and abstracting techniques. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms baselines on WikiHow and on other datasets. |
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