Hie-BART: Document Summarization with Hierarchical BART

Kazuki Akiyama, Akihiro Tamura, Takashi Ninomiya

Abstract
This paper proposes a new abstractive document summarization model, hierarchical BART (Hie-BART), which captures hierarchical structures of a document (i.e., sentence-word structures) in the BART model. Although the existing BART model has achieved a state-of-the-art performance on document summarization tasks, the model does not have the interactions between sentence-level information and word-level information. In machine translation tasks, the performance of neural machine translation models has been improved by incorporating multi-granularity self-attention (MG-SA), which captures the relationships between words and phrases. Inspired by the previous work, the proposed Hie-BART model incorporates MG-SA into the encoder of the BART model for capturing sentence-word structures. Evaluations on the CNN/Daily Mail dataset show that the proposed Hie-BART model outperforms some strong baselines and improves the performance of a non-hierarchical BART model (+0.23 ROUGE-L).
Anthology ID:
2021.naacl-srw.20
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop
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June
Year:
2021
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Online
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Esin Durmus, Vivek Gupta, Nelson Liu, Nanyun Peng, Yu Su
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NAACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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159–165
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-srw.20
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-srw.20
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Kazuki Akiyama, Akihiro Tamura, and Takashi Ninomiya. 2021. Hie-BART: Document Summarization with Hierarchical BART. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop, pages 159–165, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Hie-BART: Document Summarization with Hierarchical BART (Akiyama et al., NAACL 2021)
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CNN/Daily Mail
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