Challenge: Abstractive summarization models are limited in size and noisy training data.
Approach: They propose a bi-directional selective encoding with template model which leverages template from training data to softly select key information from each source article to guide its summarization process.
Outcome: The proposed model improves the summarization performance significantly on a standard summarizing dataset.

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