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On Extractive and Abstractive Neural Document Summarization with Transformer Language Models

Résumé

We present a method to produce abstractive summaries of long documents that exceed several thousand words via neural abstractive summarization. We perform a simple extractive step before generating a summary, which is then used to condition the transformer language model on relevant information before being tasked with generating a summary. We show that this extractive step significantly improves summarization results. We also show that this approach produces more abstractive summaries compared to prior work that employs a copy mechanism while still achieving higher rouge scores. Note: The abstract above was not written by the authors, it was generated by one of the models presented in this paper.

Publication
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
Raymond Li
Raymond Li
AI Developer

AI Developer at AI Research Deployment​ located at Montreal, QC, Canada.

Christopher Pal
Christopher Pal
Distinguished Scientist

Distinguished Scientist at AI Research Partnerships & Ecosystem​ located at Montreal, QC, Canada.