Papers with summary generation
Guiding Generation for Abstractive Text Summarization Based on Key Information Guide Network (N18-2)
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| Challenge: | Abstractive text summarization models are hard to be controlled in the process of generation, which leads to a lack of key information. |
| Approach: | They propose a guiding generation model that combines extractive and abstractive methods to generate text summarization. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves on the CNN/Daily Mail dataset. |
SEHY: A Simple yet Effective Hybrid Model for Summarization of Long Scientific Documents (2022.findings-aacl)
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| Challenge: | Abstractive approaches to extract salient sentences from long documents are not effective due to their size. |
| Approach: | They propose a simple yet effective approach that exploits the discourse information of a document to select salient sections instead of sentences for summary generation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach avoids full-text understanding and retains salient information given the length limit. |
Enhanced Transformer Model for Data-to-Text Generation (D19-56)
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| Challenge: | Neural models have shown significant progress on data-to-text generation tasks . data- to-text models generate descriptive texts from non-linguistic structured data . |
| Approach: | They propose a new data-to-text generation model which learns content selection and summary generation in an end-to end fashion. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms current state-of-the-art models on content selection precision and content ordering metrics. |
Block Diagram-to-Text: Understanding Block Diagram Images by Generating Natural Language Descriptors (2022.findings-aacl)
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| Challenge: | Block diagram summarization is a task that can be used to generate text from block diagrams. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that converts block diagram images into text by extracting contextual meaning from the images in the form of triplets. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing methods and techniques on a dataset of handwritten block diagrams. |
Learning to Verify Summary Facts with Fine-Grained LLM Feedback (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced the text summarization performance, but hallucination issues still occur in summaries. |
| Approach: | They propose a large-scale dataset containing fine-grained factual feedback on summaries that can be fine tuned by using Large Language Models (LLMs) they employ 10 distinct LLMs for diverse summary generation and Llama-3-70B-Instruct for feedback. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms models trained on smaller human-annotated datasets while maintaining high performance. |
SumPubMed: Summarization Dataset of PubMed Scientific Articles (2021.acl-srw)
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| Challenge: | Existing summarization models that can extract the top few lines of news articles fail to summarize long documents. |
| Approach: | They constructed a scientific summarization dataset from MEDLINE articles from the PubMed archive to address this problem. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing models on news article summarization datasets and shows that it is more efficient to extract the top few lines. |
Friendly Topic Assistant for Transformer Based Abstractive Summarization (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Abstractive document summarization is a comprehensive task in natural language processing. |
| Approach: | They propose a topic assistant that rearranges and learns document semantics . they propose TA that is compatible with Transformer-based models and user-friendly . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is compatible with Transformer-based models and user-friendly. |
Modeling Hierarchical Syntax Structure with Triplet Position for Source Code Summarization (2022.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to describe the syntax structure of code are lacking in retaining the semantic structure of source code. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a triplet position to model hierarchical syntax structure of code by introducing a graph neural network and Transformer to preserve the structural and sequential information of code. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model preserves the structural and sequential information of code and a pointer-generator network that pays attention to both the structure and sequential tokens of code for a better summary generation. |
Multi-doc Hybrid Summarization via Salient Representation Learning (2023.acl-industry)
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| Challenge: | Multi-document summarization is gaining more and more attention . extractive multi-doc approaches intend to directly extract key facts from multiple sources . |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-document hybrid summarization approach that generates a human-readable summary and extracts corresponding key evidences based on multi-doc inputs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method generates a human-readable summary and extracts key evidences based on multi-doc inputs. |
Learning to Summarize from LLM-generated Feedback (2025.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Developing effective text summarizers remains a challenge due to issues like unfaithful statements, key information omissions, and verbosity. |
| Approach: | They propose a large-scale dataset containing multi-dimensional feedback on LLM-generated summaries of varying quality across diverse domains to align them with human preferences for faithfulness, completeness, and conciseness. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the 10x larger Llama3-70b-instruct in generating human-preferred summaries. |
Vocabulary Tailored Summary Generation (C18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing frameworks for summary generation do not account for linguistic preferences of the specific audience who will consume the summary. |
| Approach: | They propose a neural framework to generate summary constrained to a vocabulary-defined linguistic preferences of a target audience. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach generates understandable summaries with simpler words and readable summary with shorter words against a state-of-the-art word embedding based lexical substitution algorithm. |
Factual Relation Discrimination for Factuality-oriented Abstractive Summarization (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing factuality-oriented abstractive summarization models only consider the integration of factual information and ignore the causes of factuual errors. |
| Approach: | They propose a factuality-oriented abstractive summarization model that can identify the causes of factual errors. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art models in factual metrics. |
Topic-Guided Abstractive Multi-Document Summarization (2021.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on multi-document summarization (MDS) focus on extractive and abstractive approaches to create a fluent and concise summary for a collection of thematically related documents. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel abstractive MDS model that represents multiple documents as a heterogeneous graph and then applies a graph-to-sequence framework to generate summaries. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art models on Rouge scores and human evaluation, while learning high-quality topics. |
Conditional Neural Generation using Sub-Aspect Functions for Extractive News Summarization (2020.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in text summarization have overcome position bias in news articles . however, there are long-standing, unresolved challenges in extractive summarizing . |
| Approach: | They propose a neural framework that can flexibly control summary generation by introducing a set of sub-aspect functions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework can flexibly control summary generation by introducing sub-aspect functions . extracted summaries with minimal position bias are comparable with standard models . |
Jointly Learning Guidance Induction and Faithful Summary Generation via Conditional Variational Autoencoders (2022.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for abstractive summarization generate factual consistency summaries with a high level of accuracy and coherence. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that induces the guidance information and generates summary equipment with the guidance synchronously. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework generates fluent summaries with no constraint on the words and phrases, and is more faithful than the existing state-of-the-art approaches. |
Integrating Semantic Scenario and Word Relations for Abstractive Sentence Summarization (2021.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing graph-based methods only consider word relations or structure information, which neglect the correlation between them. |
| Approach: | They propose a Dual Graph network for Abstractive Sentence Summarization that captures word relations and structure information from sentences. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art methods on two popular benchmark datasets. |
Unsupervised Neural Single-Document Summarization of Reviews via Learning Latent Discourse Structure and its Ranking (P19-1)
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| Challenge: | Currently, unsupervised summarization is widely used for product reviews on E-commerce websites. |
| Approach: | They propose an unsupervised model that learns the latent discourse tree without an external parser and generates a concise summary. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms other unsupervised approaches for relatively long reviews and is competitive with or better than supervised models. |
Benchmarking Generation and Evaluation Capabilities of Large Language Models for Instruction Controllable Summarization (2024.findings-naacl)
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Yixin Liu, Alexander Fabbri, Jiawen Chen, Yilun Zhao, Simeng Han, Shafiq Joty, Pengfei Liu, Dragomir Radev, Chien-Sheng Wu, Arman Cohan
| Challenge: | Recent studies have found that large language models (LLMs) can achieve state-of-the-art performance on generic summarization benchmarks, but their performance on more complex summarizing task settings is less studied. |
| Approach: | They benchmark large language models on instruction controllable text summarization . they use 4 evaluation protocols and 11 LLMs to evaluate their performance . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performs well on instruction controllable text summarization tasks with 4 evaluation protocols and 11 LLMs. |
CAST: Enhancing Code Summarization with Hierarchical Splitting and Reconstruction of Abstract Syntax Trees (2021.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for code summarization do not capture rich information in ASTs . existing methods are labor-intensive and time-consuming to document code with good summaries manually. |
| Approach: | They propose a model that hierarchically splits and reconstructs ASTs by a neural network . they propose to use AST embeddings and a vanilla code token encoder to generate the model . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model splits and reconstructs ASTs into subtrees and then aggregates embeddings of subtreas to get the complete AST. |
Generating Query Focused Summaries from Query-Free Resources (2021.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing datasets are small for data-hungry neural architectures and are limited to evaluation purposes. |
| Approach: | They propose to decompose QFS into query modeling and conditional language modeling . they propose a Masked ROUGE Regression framework for evidence estimation and ranking . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art performance despite weak supervision. |
On the Faithfulness for E-commerce Product Summarization (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | e-commerce product summarization requires consistency between product attributes and summary . inconsistent product summaries can mislead users and decrease public credibility . |
| Approach: | They propose a model to generate e-commerce product summaries with product attributes . they encode product attribute table and constrain attribute words to be presented only through copying . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model significantly improves the faithfulness of e-commerce product summarization tasks. |
Annotation and Analysis of Extractive Summaries for the Kyutech Corpus (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | Summarization of multi-party conversation requires corpora to analyze characteristics of conversations and construct a method for summary generation. |
| Approach: | They propose to annotate a Japanese conversation corpus for a decision-making task . they compare extractive summarization methods with the annotated extractive summary . |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus is the first annotated for conversation summarization tasks and freely available to anyone. |
Topic-Controllable Summarization: Topic-Aware Evaluation and Transformer Methods (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for topic-controllable summarization are limited by their recurrent architectures and require modifications to the model's architecture for controlling the topic. |
| Approach: | They propose a new topic-oriented evaluation measure to automatically evaluate the generated summaries based on the topic affinity between the generated summary and the desired topic. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves better performance compared to more complicated embedding-based approaches while also being significantly faster. |