Sergey Berezin


2022

pdf
Named Entity Inclusion in Abstractive Text Summarization
Sergey Berezin | Tatiana Batura
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing

We address the named entity omission - the drawback of many current abstractive text summarizers. We suggest a custom pretraining objective to enhance the model’s attention on the named entities in a text. At first, the named entity recognition model RoBERTa is trained to determine named entities in the text. After that this model is used to mask named entities in the text and the BART model is trained to reconstruct them. Next, BART model is fine-tuned on the summarization task. Our experiments showed that this pretraining approach drastically improves named entity inclusion precision and recall metrics.
Search
Co-authors
Venues