GENDEX: Generative Data Augmentation Strategy Leveraging External Data for Abstractive Dialogue Summarization (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to summarize text data are limited by the lack of data. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that uses external data to generate synthetic dialogues from short texts containing people and their interpersonal interactions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method shows robust performance, generalizability, and scalability regardless of complexity of dialogues. |
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