Self-Supervised Learning for Contextualized Extractive Summarization

Hong Wang, Xin Wang, Wenhan Xiong, Mo Yu, Xiaoxiao Guo, Shiyu Chang, William Yang Wang


Abstract
Existing models for extractive summarization are usually trained from scratch with a cross-entropy loss, which does not explicitly capture the global context at the document level. In this paper, we aim to improve this task by introducing three auxiliary pre-training tasks that learn to capture the document-level context in a self-supervised fashion. Experiments on the widely-used CNN/DM dataset validate the effectiveness of the proposed auxiliary tasks. Furthermore, we show that after pre-training, a clean model with simple building blocks is able to outperform previous state-of-the-art that are carefully designed.
Anthology ID:
P19-1214
Volume:
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Month:
July
Year:
2019
Address:
Florence, Italy
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
2221–2227
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P19-1214
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P19-1214
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Cite (ACL):
Hong Wang, Xin Wang, Wenhan Xiong, Mo Yu, Xiaoxiao Guo, Shiyu Chang, and William Yang Wang. 2019. Self-Supervised Learning for Contextualized Extractive Summarization. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 2221–2227, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Self-Supervised Learning for Contextualized Extractive Summarization (Wang et al., ACL 2019)
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https://preview.aclanthology.org/auto-file-uploads/P19-1214.pdf
Code
 hongwang600/Summarization +  additional community code