Considering Nested Tree Structure in Sentence Extractive Summarization with Pre-trained Transformer

Jingun Kwon, Naoki Kobayashi, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Manabu Okumura


Abstract
Sentence extractive summarization shortens a document by selecting sentences for a summary while preserving its important contents. However, constructing a coherent and informative summary is difficult using a pre-trained BERT-based encoder since it is not explicitly trained for representing the information of sentences in a document. We propose a nested tree-based extractive summarization model on RoBERTa (NeRoBERTa), where nested tree structures consist of syntactic and discourse trees in a given document. Experimental results on the CNN/DailyMail dataset showed that NeRoBERTa outperforms baseline models in ROUGE. Human evaluation results also showed that NeRoBERTa achieves significantly better scores than the baselines in terms of coherence and yields comparable scores to the state-of-the-art models.
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2021.emnlp-main.330
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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November
Year:
2021
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Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
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Marie-Francine Moens, Xuanjing Huang, Lucia Specia, Scott Wen-tau Yih
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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4039–4044
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.330
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.330
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Jingun Kwon, Naoki Kobayashi, Hidetaka Kamigaito, and Manabu Okumura. 2021. Considering Nested Tree Structure in Sentence Extractive Summarization with Pre-trained Transformer. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 4039–4044, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Considering Nested Tree Structure in Sentence Extractive Summarization with Pre-trained Transformer (Kwon et al., EMNLP 2021)
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Data
CNN/Daily Mail