How to Write Summaries with Patterns? Learning towards Abstractive Summarization through Prototype Editing (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Extensive experiments on a large-scale real-world text summarization dataset show that PESG achieves the state-of-the-art performance in terms of both automatic metrics and human evaluations. |
| Approach: | They propose a model that learns summary patterns and prototype facts from a prototype document . they use a fact checker to estimate mutual information between the input document and generated summary . |
| Outcome: | Experiments on a large-scale real-world text summarization dataset show that PESG achieves state-of-the-art performance. |
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