Unsupervised opinion summarization as copycat-review generation

A Bražinskas, M Lapata, I Titov - arxiv preprint arxiv:1911.02247, 2019 - arxiv.org
Opinion summarization is the task of automatically creating summaries that reflect subjective
information expressed in multiple documents, such as product reviews. While the majority of …

Extractive opinion summarization in quantized transformer spaces

S Angelidis, RK Amplayo, Y Suhara, X Wang… - Transactions of the …, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
Abstract We present the Quantized Transformer (QT), an unsupervised system for extractive
opinion summarization. QT is inspired by Vector-Quantized Variational Autoencoders, which …

Rhetorical structure theory: A comprehensive review of theory, parsing methods and applications

S Hou, S Zhang, C Fei - Expert Systems with Applications, 2020 - Elsevier
Rhetorical structure theory (RST) is a significant theory about discourse organization. With
an increasing number of research interests focus on RST, many novel parsing approaches …

OpinionDigest: A simple framework for opinion summarization

Y Suhara, X Wang, S Angelidis, WC Tan - arxiv preprint arxiv:2005.01901, 2020 - arxiv.org
We present OpinionDigest, an abstractive opinion summarization framework, which does not
rely on gold-standard summaries for training. The framework uses an Aspect-based …

Few-shot learning for opinion summarization

A Bražinskas, M Lapata, I Titov - arxiv preprint arxiv:2004.14884, 2020 - arxiv.org
Opinion summarization is the automatic creation of text reflecting subjective information
expressed in multiple documents, such as user reviews of a product. The task is practically …

Adapting BERT to implicit discourse relation classification with a focus on discourse connectives

Y Kishimoto, Y Murawaki… - Proceedings of the Twelfth …, 2020 - aclanthology.org
BERT, a neural network-based language model pre-trained on large corpora, is a
breakthrough in natural language processing, significantly outperforming previous state-of …

Unsupervised extractive opinion summarization using sparse coding

SBR Chowdhury, C Zhao, S Chaturvedi - arxiv preprint arxiv:2203.07921, 2022 - arxiv.org
Opinion summarization is the task of automatically generating summaries that encapsulate
information from multiple user reviews. We present Semantic Autoencoder (SemAE) to …

Ffci: A framework for interpretable automatic evaluation of summarization

F Koto, T Baldwin, JH Lau - Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2022 - jair.org
In this paper, we propose FFCI, a framework for fine-grained summarization evaluation that
comprises four elements: faithfulness (degree of factual consistency with the source), focus …

Multitask semi-supervised learning for class-imbalanced discourse classification

A Spangher, J May, SR Shiang… - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
As labeling schemas evolve over time, small differences can render datasets following older
schemas unusable. This prevents researchers from building on top of previous annotation …

Modeling discourse structure for document-level neural machine translation

J Chen, X Li, J Zhang, C Zhou, J Cui, B Wang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Recently, document-level neural machine translation (NMT) has become a hot topic in the
community of machine translation. Despite its success, most of existing studies ignored the …