Abstract
Nowadays, we are surrounded by more and more online news articles. Tens or hundreds of news articles need to be read if we wish to explore a hot news event or topic. So it is of vital importance to automatically synthesize a batch of news articles related to the event or topic into a new synthesis article (or overview article) for reader’s convenience. It is so challenging to make news synthesis fully automatic that there is no successful solution by now. In this paper, we put forward a novel Interactive News Synthesis system (i.e. INS), which can help generate news overview articles automatically or by interacting with users. More importantly, INS can serve as a tool for editors to help them finish their jobs. In our experiments, INS performs well on both topic representation and synthesis article generation. A user study also demonstrates the usefulness and users’ satisfaction with the INS tool. A demo video is available at https://youtu.be/7ItteKW3GEk.- Anthology ID:
- N19-4004
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Demonstrations)
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Editors:
- Waleed Ammar, Annie Louis, Nasrin Mostafazadeh
- Venue:
- NAACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 18–23
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/N19-4004
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/N19-4004
- Cite (ACL):
- Hui Liu, Wentao Qin, and Xiaojun Wan. 2019. INS: An Interactive Chinese News Synthesis System. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Demonstrations), pages 18–23, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- INS: An Interactive Chinese News Synthesis System (Liu et al., NAACL 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/naacl-24-ws-corrections/N19-4004.pdf