Challenge: Existing factuality-oriented abstractive summarization models only consider the integration of factual information and ignore the causes of factuual errors.
Approach: They propose a factuality-oriented abstractive summarization model that can identify the causes of factual errors.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art models in factual metrics.

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