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title = "Cascaded Attention based Unsupervised Information Distillation for Compressive Summarization",
author = "Li, Piji and
Lam, Wai and
Bing, Lidong and
Guo, Weiwei and
Li, Hang",
editor = "Palmer, Martha and
Hwa, Rebecca and
Riedel, Sebastian",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
month = sep,
year = "2017",
address = "Copenhagen, Denmark",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/D17-1221/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/D17-1221",
pages = "2081--2090",
abstract = "When people recall and digest what they have read for writing summaries, the important content is more likely to attract their attention. Inspired by this observation, we propose a cascaded attention based unsupervised model to estimate the salience information from the text for compressive multi-document summarization. The attention weights are learned automatically by an unsupervised data reconstruction framework which can capture the sentence salience. By adding sparsity constraints on the number of output vectors, we can generate condensed information which can be treated as word salience. Fine-grained and coarse-grained sentence compression strategies are incorporated to produce compressive summaries. Experiments on some benchmark data sets show that our framework achieves better results than the state-of-the-art methods."
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%T Cascaded Attention based Unsupervised Information Distillation for Compressive Summarization
%A Li, Piji
%A Lam, Wai
%A Bing, Lidong
%A Guo, Weiwei
%A Li, Hang
%Y Palmer, Martha
%Y Hwa, Rebecca
%Y Riedel, Sebastian
%S Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
%D 2017
%8 September
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Copenhagen, Denmark
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%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/D17-1221
%P 2081-2090
Markdown (Informal)
[Cascaded Attention based Unsupervised Information Distillation for Compressive Summarization](https://aclanthology.org/D17-1221/) (Li et al., EMNLP 2017)
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