{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/retrieve-rerank-and-rewrite-soft-template","title":"Retrieve, Rerank and Rewrite: Soft Template Based Neural Summarization","arxiv_id":null,"date":"2018-07-01","proceeding":"ACL 2018 7","authors":["Ziqiang Cao","Wenjie Li","Sujian Li","Furu Wei"],"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.","url_abs":"https://aclanthology.org/P18-1015","url_pdf":"https://aclanthology.org/P18-1015.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"abstractive-text-summarization","task_name":"Abstractive Text Summarization"},{"task_slug":"informativeness","task_name":"Informativeness"},{"task_slug":"reranking","task_name":"Reranking"},{"task_slug":"sentence-summarization","task_name":"Sentence Summarization"},{"task_slug":"summarization","task_name":"Summarization"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"lstm","method_name":"LSTM"},{"method_slug":"seq2seq","method_name":"Seq2Seq"},{"method_slug":"sigmoid-activation","method_name":"Sigmoid Activation"},{"method_slug":"tanh-activation","method_name":"Tanh Activation"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[{"leaderboard":"/sota/text-summarization-on-gigaword","task":"Text Summarization","dataset":"GigaWord","model":"Re^3 Sum","rank_in_archive_order":25,"of":41,"metrics":{"ROUGE-1":"37.04","ROUGE-2":"19.03","ROUGE-L":"34.46"},"uses_additional_data":false}],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}