TECHSSN at SemEval-2025 Task 10: A Comparative Analysis of Transformer Models for Dominant Narrative-Based News Summarization

Pooja Premnath, Venkatasai Ojus Yenumulapalli, Parthiban Mohankumar, Rajalakshmi Sivanaiah, Angel Deborah S


Abstract
This paper presents an approach to Task 10 of SemEval 2025, which focuses on summarizing English news articles using a given dominant narrative. The dataset comprises news articles on the Russia-Ukraine war and climate change, introducing challenges related to bias, information compression, and contextual coherence. Transformer-based models, specifically BART variants, are utilized to generate concise and coherent summaries. Our team TechSSN, achieved 4th place on the official test leaderboard with a BERTScore of 0.74203, employing the DistilBART-CNN-12-6 model.
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2025.semeval-1.286
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Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025)
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July
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2025
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Vienna, Austria
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Sara Rosenthal, Aiala Rosá, Debanjan Ghosh, Marcos Zampieri
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SemEval | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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2205–2212
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Pooja Premnath, Venkatasai Ojus Yenumulapalli, Parthiban Mohankumar, Rajalakshmi Sivanaiah, and Angel Deborah S. 2025. TECHSSN at SemEval-2025 Task 10: A Comparative Analysis of Transformer Models for Dominant Narrative-Based News Summarization. In Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025), pages 2205–2212, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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TECHSSN at SemEval-2025 Task 10: A Comparative Analysis of Transformer Models for Dominant Narrative-Based News Summarization (Premnath et al., SemEval 2025)
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