Unsupervised Abstractive Dialogue Summarization with Word Graphs and POV Conversion

Seongmin Park, Jihwa Lee


Abstract
We advance the state-of-the-art in unsupervised abstractive dialogue summarization by utilizing multi-sentence compression graphs. Starting from well-founded assumptions about word graphs, we present simple but reliable path-reranking and topic segmentation schemes. Robustness of our method is demonstrated on datasets across multiple domains, including meetings, interviews, movie scripts, and day-to-day conversations. We also identify possible avenues to augment our heuristic-based system with deep learning. We open-source our code, to provide a strong, reproducible baseline for future research into unsupervised dialogue summarization.
Anthology ID:
2022.wit-1.1
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Deriving Insights from User-Generated Text
Month:
May
Year:
2022
Address:
(Hybrid) Dublin, Ireland, and Virtual
Editors:
Estevam Hruschka, Tom Mitchell, Dunja Mladenic, Marko Grobelnik, Nikita Bhutani
Venue:
WIT
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
1–9
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.wit-1.1
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.wit-1.1
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Cite (ACL):
Seongmin Park and Jihwa Lee. 2022. Unsupervised Abstractive Dialogue Summarization with Word Graphs and POV Conversion. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Deriving Insights from User-Generated Text, pages 1–9, (Hybrid) Dublin, Ireland, and Virtual. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Unsupervised Abstractive Dialogue Summarization with Word Graphs and POV Conversion (Park & Lee, WIT 2022)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.wit-1.1.pdf
Video:
 https://aclanthology.org/2022.wit-1.1.mp4
Code
 seongminp/graph-dialogue-summary
Data
SAMSumSummScreen