Challenge: Abstractive summarization tasks are often based on deep reinforcement learning (RL) but the traditional reward system Rouge-L simply looks for exact n-grams matches between candidates and annotated references, which makes the generated sentences repetitive and incoherent.
Approach: They propose to use distributional semantics to measure matching degrees instead of Rouge-L to generate sentences with n-grams matches.
Outcome: The proposed reward has superiority over the existing reward, despite the incoherence of the generated sentences.

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