Multimodal Abstractive Summarization for How2 Videos
Shruti Palaskar, Jindřich Libovický, Spandana Gella, Florian Metze
Abstract
In this paper, we study abstractive summarization for open-domain videos. Unlike the traditional text news summarization, the goal is less to “compress” text information but rather to provide a fluent textual summary of information that has been collected and fused from different source modalities, in our case video and audio transcripts (or text). We show how a multi-source sequence-to-sequence model with hierarchical attention can integrate information from different modalities into a coherent output, compare various models trained with different modalities and present pilot experiments on the How2 corpus of instructional videos. We also propose a new evaluation metric (Content F1) for abstractive summarization task that measures semantic adequacy rather than fluency of the summaries, which is covered by metrics like ROUGE and BLEU.- Anthology ID:
- P19-1659
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Florence, Italy
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 6587–6596
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/P19-1659
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/P19-1659
- Cite (ACL):
- Shruti Palaskar, Jindřich Libovický, Spandana Gella, and Florian Metze. 2019. Multimodal Abstractive Summarization for How2 Videos. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 6587–6596, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Multimodal Abstractive Summarization for How2 Videos (Palaskar et al., ACL 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-script-update/P19-1659.pdf
- Data
- Charades, How2