Challenge: Existing approaches to meeting summarization are limited due to noise, lengthy transcripts, and scattered salient information.
Approach: They propose a two-step framework for meeting summarization that leverages a self-supervised paradigm to reconstruct transcripts and a relative positional bucketing algorithm to equip models to generate the summary.
Outcome: The proposed method significantly reduces memory consumption and processing time on two meeting summarization datasets.

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