Taxonomy of abstractive dialogue summarization: scenarios, approaches, and future directions

Q Jia, Y Liu, S Ren, KQ Zhu - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Abstractive dialogue summarization generates a concise and fluent summary covering the
salient information in a dialogue among two or more interlocutors. It has attracted significant …

What's under the hood: Investigating Automatic Metrics on Meeting Summarization

F Kirstein, JP Wahle, T Ruas, B Gipp - arxiv preprint arxiv:2404.11124, 2024 - arxiv.org
Meeting summarization has become a critical task considering the increase in online
interactions. While new techniques are introduced regularly, their evaluation uses metrics …

Dialogue summaries as dialogue states (DS2), template-guided summarization for few-shot dialogue state tracking

J Shin, H Yu, H Moon, A Madotto, J Park - arxiv preprint arxiv:2203.01552, 2022 - arxiv.org
Annotating task-oriented dialogues is notorious for the expensive and difficult data collection
process. Few-shot dialogue state tracking (DST) is a realistic solution to this problem. In this …

ArgLegalSumm: Improving abstractive summarization of legal documents with argument mining

M Elaraby, D Litman - arxiv preprint arxiv:2209.01650, 2022 - arxiv.org
A challenging task when generating summaries of legal documents is the ability to address
their argumentative nature. We introduce a simple technique to capture the argumentative …

Improving automatic summarization for browsing longform spoken dialog

D Li, T Chen, A Zadikian, A Tung… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Longform spoken dialog delivers rich streams of informative content through podcasts,
interviews, debates, and meetings. While production of this medium has grown …

DialSummEval: Revisiting summarization evaluation for dialogues

M Gao, X Wan - Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
Dialogue summarization is receiving increasing attention from researchers due to its
extraordinary difficulty and unique application value. We observe that current dialogue …

A Novel Topic Segmentation Approach for Enhanced Dialogue Summarization

Z Ren - 2024 - adwenpub.com
Dialogue summarization aims to distill a given conversation into a brief and focused
summary. The challenge lies in the diverse perspectives of participants and the frequent …

Summaries, Highlights, and Action items: Design, implementation and evaluation of an LLM-powered meeting recap system

S Asthana, S Hilleli, P He, A Halfaker - arxiv preprint arxiv:2307.15793, 2023 - arxiv.org
Meetings play a critical infrastructural role in the coordination of work. In recent years, due to
shift to hybrid and remote work, more meetings are moving to online Computer Mediated …

Enhancing dialogue summarization with topic-aware global-and local-level centrality

X Liang, S Wu, C Cui, J Bai, C Bian, Z Li - arxiv preprint arxiv:2301.12376, 2023 - arxiv.org
Dialogue summarization aims to condense a given dialogue into a simple and focused
summary text. Typically, both the roles' viewpoints and conversational topics change in the …

Mutually improved response generation and dialogue summarization for multi-domain task-oriented dialogue systems

M Zhao, L Wang, H Ji, Z Jiang, R Li, X Lu… - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2023 - Elsevier
With the development of pre-trained language models (PrLM), the research of PrLM-based
multi-domain task-oriented dialogue systems (TOD) has attracted growing attention and has …