DialogSum Challenge: Results of the Dialogue Summarization Shared Task

Yulong Chen, Naihao Deng, Yang Liu, Yue Zhang


Abstract
We report the results of DialogSum Challenge, the shared task on summarizing real-life sce- nario dialogues at INLG 2022. Four teams participate in this shared task and three submit their system reports, exploring different meth- ods to improve the performance of dialogue summarization. Although there is a great im- provement over the baseline models regarding automatic evaluation metrics, such as ROUGE scores, we find that there is a salient gap be- tween model generated outputs and human an- notated summaries by human evaluation from multiple aspects. These findings demonstrate the difficulty of dialogue summarization and suggest that more fine-grained evaluatuion met- rics are in need.
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2022.inlg-genchal.14
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Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Natural Language Generation: Generation Challenges
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July
Year:
2022
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Waterville, Maine, USA and virtual meeting
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Samira Shaikh, Thiago Ferreira, Amanda Stent
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INLG
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SIGGEN
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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94–103
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Yulong Chen, Naihao Deng, Yang Liu, and Yue Zhang. 2022. DialogSum Challenge: Results of the Dialogue Summarization Shared Task. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Natural Language Generation: Generation Challenges, pages 94–103, Waterville, Maine, USA and virtual meeting. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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