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title = "Understanding Points of Correspondence between Sentences for Abstractive Summarization",
author = "Lebanoff, Logan and
Muchovej, John and
Dernoncourt, Franck and
Kim, Doo Soon and
Wang, Lidan and
Chang, Walter and
Liu, Fei",
editor = "Rijhwani, Shruti and
Liu, Jiangming and
Wang, Yizhong and
Dror, Rotem",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop",
month = jul,
year = "2020",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-srw.26",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.acl-srw.26",
pages = "191--198",
abstract = "Fusing sentences containing disparate content is a remarkable human ability that helps create informative and succinct summaries. Such a simple task for humans has remained challenging for modern abstractive summarizers, substantially restricting their applicability in real-world scenarios. In this paper, we present an investigation into fusing sentences drawn from a document by introducing the notion of points of correspondence, which are cohesive devices that tie any two sentences together into a coherent text. The types of points of correspondence are delineated by text cohesion theory, covering pronominal and nominal referencing, repetition and beyond. We create a dataset containing the documents, source and fusion sentences, and human annotations of points of correspondence between sentences. Our dataset bridges the gap between coreference resolution and summarization. It is publicly shared to serve as a basis for future work to measure the success of sentence fusion systems.",
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%T Understanding Points of Correspondence between Sentences for Abstractive Summarization
%A Lebanoff, Logan
%A Muchovej, John
%A Dernoncourt, Franck
%A Kim, Doo Soon
%A Wang, Lidan
%A Chang, Walter
%A Liu, Fei
%Y Rijhwani, Shruti
%Y Liu, Jiangming
%Y Wang, Yizhong
%Y Dror, Rotem
%S Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop
%D 2020
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Online
%F lebanoff-etal-2020-understanding
%X Fusing sentences containing disparate content is a remarkable human ability that helps create informative and succinct summaries. Such a simple task for humans has remained challenging for modern abstractive summarizers, substantially restricting their applicability in real-world scenarios. In this paper, we present an investigation into fusing sentences drawn from a document by introducing the notion of points of correspondence, which are cohesive devices that tie any two sentences together into a coherent text. The types of points of correspondence are delineated by text cohesion theory, covering pronominal and nominal referencing, repetition and beyond. We create a dataset containing the documents, source and fusion sentences, and human annotations of points of correspondence between sentences. Our dataset bridges the gap between coreference resolution and summarization. It is publicly shared to serve as a basis for future work to measure the success of sentence fusion systems.
%R 10.18653/v1/2020.acl-srw.26
%U https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-srw.26
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.acl-srw.26
%P 191-198
Markdown (Informal)
[Understanding Points of Correspondence between Sentences for Abstractive Summarization](https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-srw.26) (Lebanoff et al., ACL 2020)
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