SummerTime: Text Summarization Toolkit for Non-experts

Ansong Ni, Zhangir Azerbayev, Mutethia Mutuma, Troy Feng, Yusen Zhang, Tao Yu, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Dragomir Radev


Abstract
Recent advances in summarization provide models that can generate summaries of higher quality. Such models now exist for a number of summarization tasks, including query-based summarization, dialogue summarization, and multi-document summarization. While such models and tasks are rapidly growing in the research field, it has also become challenging for non-experts to keep track of them. To make summarization methods more accessible to a wider audience, we develop SummerTime by rethinking the summarization task from the perspective of an NLP non-expert. SummerTime is a complete toolkit for text summarization, including various models, datasets, and evaluation metrics, for a full spectrum of summarization-related tasks. SummerTime integrates with libraries designed for NLP researchers, and enables users with easy-to-use APIs. With SummerTime, users can locate pipeline solutions and search for the best model with their own data, and visualize the differences, all with a few lines of code. We also provide explanations for models and evaluation metrics to help users understand the model behaviors and select models that best suit their needs. Our library, along with a notebook demo, is available at https://github.com/Yale-LILY/SummerTime.
Anthology ID:
2021.emnlp-demo.37
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
Month:
November
Year:
2021
Address:
Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
Editors:
Heike Adel, Shuming Shi
Venue:
EMNLP
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
329–338
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-demo.37
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-demo.37
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Cite (ACL):
Ansong Ni, Zhangir Azerbayev, Mutethia Mutuma, Troy Feng, Yusen Zhang, Tao Yu, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, and Dragomir Radev. 2021. SummerTime: Text Summarization Toolkit for Non-experts. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, pages 329–338, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
SummerTime: Text Summarization Toolkit for Non-experts (Ni et al., EMNLP 2021)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-demo.37.pdf
Video:
 https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-demo.37.mp4
Code
 Yale-LILY/SummerTime
Data
CNN/Daily MailMLSUMMulti-NewsPubMedQASAMSumScisummNetSummScreen