Unsupervised Opinion Summarization Using Approximate Geodesics (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for opinion summarization are limited due to the scarcity of data. |
| Approach: | They propose a system to perform unsupervised extractive opinion summarization using a dictionary-based representation learning model that generates topical representations of texts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system achieves strong performance on three opinion summarization datasets. |
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