2017

Query-Based Abstractive Summarization Using Neural Networks

Hasselqvist, Johan, Helmertz, Niklas, Kågebäck, Mikael

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In this paper, we present a model for generating summaries of text documents with respect to a query.

  • This is known as query-based summarization.
  • We adapt an existing dataset of news article summaries for the task and train a pointer-generator model using this dataset.
  • The generated summaries are evaluated by measuring similarity to reference summaries.

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