@inproceedings{cao-etal-2018-retrieve,
title = "Retrieve, Rerank and Rewrite: Soft Template Based Neural Summarization",
author = "Cao, Ziqiang and
Li, Wenjie and
Li, Sujian and
Wei, Furu",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
month = jul,
year = "2018",
address = "Melbourne, Australia",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/P18-1015",
doi = "10.18653/v1/P18-1015",
pages = "152--161",
abstract = "Most previous seq2seq summarization systems purely depend on the source text to generate summaries, which tends to work unstably. Inspired by the traditional template-based summarization approaches, this paper proposes to use existing summaries as soft templates to guide the seq2seq model. To this end, we use a popular IR platform to Retrieve proper summaries as candidate templates. Then, we extend the seq2seq framework to jointly conduct template Reranking and template-aware summary generation (Rewriting). Experiments show that, in terms of informativeness, our model significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods, and even soft templates themselves demonstrate high competitiveness. In addition, the import of high-quality external summaries improves the stability and readability of generated summaries.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Retrieve, Rerank and Rewrite: Soft Template Based Neural Summarization
%A Cao, Ziqiang
%A Li, Wenjie
%A Li, Sujian
%A Wei, Furu
%S Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
%D 2018
%8 jul
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%X Most previous seq2seq summarization systems purely depend on the source text to generate summaries, which tends to work unstably. Inspired by the traditional template-based summarization approaches, this paper proposes to use existing summaries as soft templates to guide the seq2seq model. To this end, we use a popular IR platform to Retrieve proper summaries as candidate templates. Then, we extend the seq2seq framework to jointly conduct template Reranking and template-aware summary generation (Rewriting). Experiments show that, in terms of informativeness, our model significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods, and even soft templates themselves demonstrate high competitiveness. In addition, the import of high-quality external summaries improves the stability and readability of generated summaries.
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%P 152-161
Markdown (Informal)
[Retrieve, Rerank and Rewrite: Soft Template Based Neural Summarization](https://aclanthology.org/P18-1015) (Cao et al., ACL 2018)
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