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Summary Refinement Through Denoising (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: A cleanup step trains a rewriting model on summaries deliberately stuffed with off-topic sentences, so it learns to strip out-of-context filler. Added after standard extractive and abstractive summarizers, it raised quality scores and cut redundancy.

Abstract · Summary Refinement through Denoising

We propose a simple method for post-processing the outputs of a text summarization system in order to refine its overall quality. Our approach is to train text-to-text rewriting models to correct information redundancy errors that may arise during summarization. We train on synthetically generated noisy summaries, testing three different types of noise that introduce out-of-context information within each summary. When applied on top of extractive and abstractive summarization baselines, our summary denoising models yield metric improvements while reducing redundancy.

Nikola I. Nikolov, Alessandro Calmanovici, Richard H. R. Hahnloser
arXiv:1907.10873 · cs.CL · submitted Jul 25, 2019
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