summarization

Analyzing the Abstractiveness-Factuality Tradeoff With Nonlinear Abstractiveness Constraints

We analyze the tradeoff between factuality and abstractiveness of summaries. We introduce abstractiveness constraints to control the degree of abstractiveness at decoding time, and we apply this technique to characterize the …

Efficiently Summarizing Text and Graph Encodings of Multi-Document Clusters

This paper presents an efficient graph-enhanced approach to multi-document summarization (MDS) with an encoder-decoder Transformer model. This model is based on recent advances in pre-training both encoder and decoder on very large text data (Lewis …

Rewards with Negative Examples for Reinforced Topic-Focused Abstractive Summarization

We consider the problem of topic-focused abstractive summarization, where the goal is to generate an abstractive summary focused on a particular topic, a phrase of one or multiple words. We hypothesize that the task of generating topic-focused …

Transductive Learning for Abstractive News Summarization

Pre-trained language models have recently advanced abstractive summarization. These models are further fine-tuned on human-written references before summary generation in test time. In this work, we propose the first application of transductive …