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Neural Extractive Summarization with Hierarchical Attentive Heterogeneous Graph Network

1 Nov 2020EMNLP 2020 11archive 2025-07-28

Ruipeng Jia, Yanan Cao, Hengzhu Tang, Fang Fang, Cong Cao, Shi Wang

Sentence-level extractive text summarization is substantially a node classification task of network mining, adhering to the informative components and concise representations. There are lots of redundant phrases between extracted sentences, but it is difficult to model them exactly by the general supervised methods. Previous sentence encoders, especially BERT, specialize in modeling the relationship between source sentences. While, they have no ability to consider the overlaps of the target selected summary, and there are inherent dependencies among target labels of sentences. In this paper, we propose HAHSum (as shorthand for Hierarchical Attentive Heterogeneous Graph for Text Summarization), which well models different levels of information, including words and sentences, and spotlights redundancy dependencies between sentences. Our approach iteratively refines the sentence representations with redundancy-aware graph and delivers the label dependencies by message passing. Experiments on large scale benchmark corpus (CNN/DM, NYT, and NEWSROOM) demonstrate that HAHSum yields ground-breaking performance and outperforms previous extractive summarizers.

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Extractive SummarizationExtractive Text SummarizationNode ClassificationSentenceText Summarization

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Extractive Text Summarization CNN / Daily Mail HAHSum ROUGE-1 44.68 #1 of 15 Archive leaderboard report
Extractive Text Summarization CNN / Daily Mail HAHSum ROUGE-2 21.30 #1 of 15 Archive leaderboard report
Extractive Text Summarization CNN / Daily Mail HAHSum ROUGE-L 40.75 #1 of 15 Archive leaderboard report

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