Yusen Zhang, Yang Liu, Ziyi Yang, Yuwei Fang, Yulong Chen, Dragomir Radev, Chenguang Zhu, Michael Zeng, Rui Zhang
| Challenge: | Existing work on controllable summarization with mixed attributes lacks designated annotations. |
| Approach: | They propose a human-annotated summarization benchmark for controllable summarizing with mixed attributes based on news and dialogue sources . |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset contains human-annotated summarization datasets with mixed attributes . hard prompt models yield the best performance on most metrics and human evaluations . mixed-attribute control is still challenging for summarizing tasks . |
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