Transformer-based Models for Long Document Summarisation in Financial Domain

Urvashi Khanna, Samira Ghodratnama, Diego Moll ́a, Amin Beheshti


Abstract
Summarisation of long financial documents is a challenging task due to the lack of large-scale datasets and the need for domain knowledge experts to create human-written summaries. Traditional summarisation approaches that generate a summary based on the content cannot produce summaries comparable to human-written ones and thus are rarely used in practice. In this work, we use the Longformer-Encoder-Decoder (LED) model to handle long financial reports. We describe our experiments and participating systems in the financial narrative summarisation shared task. Multi-stage fine-tuning helps the model generalise better on niche domains and avoids the problem of catastrophic forgetting. We further investigate the effect of the staged fine-tuning approach on the FNS dataset. Our systems achieved promising results in terms of ROUGE scores on the validation dataset.
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2022.fnp-1.10
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Proceedings of the 4th Financial Narrative Processing Workshop @LREC2022
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June
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2022
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Marseille, France
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Mahmoud El-Haj, Paul Rayson, Nadhem Zmandar
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FNP
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European Language Resources Association
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73–78
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Urvashi Khanna, Samira Ghodratnama, Diego Moll ́a, and Amin Beheshti. 2022. Transformer-based Models for Long Document Summarisation in Financial Domain. In Proceedings of the 4th Financial Narrative Processing Workshop @LREC2022, pages 73–78, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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