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Unsupervised Abstractive Meeting Summarization with Multi-Sentence Compression and Budgeted Submodular Maximization

14 May 2018ACL 2018 7arXiv:1805.05271archive 2025-07-28

Guokan Shang, Wensi Ding, Zekun Zhang, Antoine Jean-Pierre Tixier, Polykarpos Meladianos, Michalis Vazirgiannis, Jean-Pierre Lorré

We introduce a novel graph-based framework for abstractive meeting speech summarization that is fully unsupervised and does not rely on any annotations. Our work combines the strengths of multiple recent approaches while addressing their weaknesses. Moreover, we leverage recent advances in word embeddings and graph degeneracy applied to NLP to take exterior semantic knowledge into account, and to design custom diversity and informativeness measures. Experiments on the AMI and ICSI corpus show that our system improves on the state-of-the-art. Code and data are publicly available, and our system can be interactively tested.

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Abstractive Dialogue SummarizationAbstractive Text SummarizationDialogue UnderstandingDiversityInformativenessMeeting SummarizationSentenceSentence CompressionWord Embeddings

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Meeting Summarization AMI Meeting Corpus UNS ROUGE-1 F1 37.53 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
Meeting Summarization ICSI Meeting Corpus UNS ROUGE-1 F1 34.11 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report

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