A Pilot Study of Domain Adaptation Effect for Neural Abstractive Summarization

Xinyu Hua, Lu Wang


Abstract
We study the problem of domain adaptation for neural abstractive summarization. We make initial efforts in investigating what information can be transferred to a new domain. Experimental results on news stories and opinion articles indicate that neural summarization model benefits from pre-training based on extractive summaries. We also find that the combination of in-domain and out-of-domain setup yields better summaries when in-domain data is insufficient. Further analysis shows that, the model is capable to select salient content even trained on out-of-domain data, but requires in-domain data to capture the style for a target domain.
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W17-4513
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Proceedings of the Workshop on New Frontiers in Summarization
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September
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2017
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Copenhagen, Denmark
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Lu Wang, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Giuseppe Carenini, Fei Liu
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WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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100–106
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https://aclanthology.org/W17-4513
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10.18653/v1/W17-4513
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Xinyu Hua and Lu Wang. 2017. A Pilot Study of Domain Adaptation Effect for Neural Abstractive Summarization. In Proceedings of the Workshop on New Frontiers in Summarization, pages 100–106, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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