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Summary Refinement through Denoising

25 Jul 2019RANLP 2019 9arXiv:1907.10873archive 2025-07-28

Nikola I. Nikolov, Alessandro Calmanovici, Richard H. R. Hahnloser

We propose a simple method for post-processing the outputs of a text summarization system in order to refine its overall quality. Our approach is to train text-to-text rewriting models to correct information redundancy errors that may arise during summarization. We train on synthetically generated noisy summaries, testing three different types of noise that introduce out-of-context information within each summary. When applied on top of extractive and abstractive summarization baselines, our summary denoising models yield metric improvements while reducing redundancy.

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