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Abstractive Text Summarization Using Sequence-to-Sequence RNNs and Beyond

19 Feb 2016CONLL 2016 8arXiv:1602.06023archive 2025-07-28

Ramesh Nallapati, Bo-Wen Zhou, Cicero Nogueira dos santos, Caglar Gulcehre, Bing Xiang

In this work, we model abstractive text summarization using Attentional Encoder-Decoder Recurrent Neural Networks, and show that they achieve state-of-the-art performance on two different corpora. We propose several novel models that address critical problems in summarization that are not adequately modeled by the basic architecture, such as modeling key-words, capturing the hierarchy of sentence-to-word structure, and emitting words that are rare or unseen at training time. Our work shows that many of our proposed models contribute to further improvement in performance. We also propose a new dataset consisting of multi-sentence summaries, and establish performance benchmarks for further research.

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CNN/Daily Mail

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Abstractive Text Summarization CNN / Daily Mail LEAD-3 ROUGE-1 40.42 #42 of 53 Archive leaderboard report
Abstractive Text Summarization CNN / Daily Mail LEAD-3 ROUGE-2 17.62 #42 of 53 Archive leaderboard report
Abstractive Text Summarization CNN / Daily Mail LEAD-3 ROUGE-L 36.67 #42 of 53 Archive leaderboard report
Text Summarization CNN / Daily Mail (Anonymized) words-lvt2k-temp-att ROUGE-1 35.46 #13 of 13 Archive leaderboard report
Text Summarization CNN / Daily Mail (Anonymized) words-lvt2k-temp-att ROUGE-2 13.30 #13 of 13 Archive leaderboard report
Text Summarization CNN / Daily Mail (Anonymized) words-lvt2k-temp-att ROUGE-L 32.65 #13 of 13 Archive leaderboard report
Text Summarization DUC 2004 Task 1 words-lvt5k-1sent ROUGE-1 28.61 #10 of 13 Archive leaderboard report
Text Summarization DUC 2004 Task 1 words-lvt5k-1sent ROUGE-2 9.42 #10 of 13 Archive leaderboard report
Text Summarization DUC 2004 Task 1 words-lvt5k-1sent ROUGE-L 25.24 #10 of 13 Archive leaderboard report
Text Summarization GigaWord words-lvt5k-1sent ROUGE-1 36.4 #30 of 41 Archive leaderboard report
Text Summarization GigaWord words-lvt5k-1sent ROUGE-2 17.7 #30 of 41 Archive leaderboard report
Text Summarization GigaWord words-lvt5k-1sent ROUGE-L 33.71 #30 of 41 Archive leaderboard report

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