(Submitted on 7 Sep 2019)
Abstract: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.
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From: Sandeep Subramanian [view email]
[v1]Sat, 7 Sep 2019 04: 33: (UTC) 3, (KB))
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