Long Document Summarization with Top-down and Bottom-up Inference (2023.findings-eacl)
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| Challenge: | Recent models infer latent representations of words or tokens with a transformer encoder, which is bottom-up and thus does not capture long-distance context well. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to infer latent representations of words or tokens in documents . they assume a hierarchical structure of a document where top-level captures long range dependency . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can summarize an entire book and achieve competitive performance on a wide range of document summarization benchmarks. |
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