Siyan Zheng
2020
SUMSUM@FNS-2020 Shared Task
Siyan Zheng
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Anneliese Lu
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Claire Cardie
Proceedings of the 1st Joint Workshop on Financial Narrative Processing and MultiLing Financial Summarisation
This paper describes the SUMSUM systems submitted to the Financial Narrative Summarization Shared Task (FNS-2020). We explore a section-based extractive summarization method tailored to the structure of financial reports: our best system parses the report Table of Contents (ToC), splits the report into narrative sections based on the ToC, and applies a BERT-based classifier to each section to determine whether it should be included in the summary. Our best system ranks 4<sup>th</sup>, 1<sup>st</sup>, 2<sup>nd</sup> and 17<sup>th</sup> on the Rouge-1, Rouge-2, Rouge-SU4, and Rouge-L official metrics, respectively. We also report results on the validation set using an alternative set of Rouge-based metrics that measure performance with respect to the best-matching of the available gold summaries.