Simon Baumgartner


2020

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A Generative Approach to Titling and Clustering Wikipedia Sections
Anjalie Field | Sascha Rothe | Simon Baumgartner | Cong Yu | Abe Ittycheriah
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Neural Generation and Translation

We evaluate the performance of transformer encoders with various decoders for information organization through a new task: generation of section headings for Wikipedia articles. Our analysis shows that decoders containing attention mechanisms over the encoder output achieve high-scoring results by generating extractive text. In contrast, a decoder without attention better facilitates semantic encoding and can be used to generate section embeddings. We additionally introduce a new loss function, which further encourages the decoder to generate high-quality embeddings.