Query-focused Summarization

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• From Local to Global: A Graph RAG Approach to Query-Focused Summarization
  24 Apr 2024 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 5 samples · 5 unverified
  To combine the strengths of these contrasting methods, we propose a Graph RAG approach to question answering over private text corpora that scales with both the generality of user questions and the quantity of source…
• QTSumm: Query-Focused Summarization over Tabular Data
  23 May 2023 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 3 samples · 0 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)
  Motivated by this, we define a new query-focused table summarization task, where text generation models have to perform human-like reasoning and analysis over the given table to generate a tailored summary.
• FG-RAG: Enhancing Query-Focused Summarization with Context-Aware Fine-Grained Graph RAG
  13 Mar 2025 1 repository listed
  In the Query-Focused Summarization (QFS) task, GraphRAG-based approaches have notably enhanced the comprehensiveness and diversity of generated responses.
• Unstructured Evidence Attribution for Long Context Query Focused Summarization
  20 Feb 2025 1 repository listed
  We show how existing systems struggle to generate and properly cite unstructured evidence from their context, and that evidence tends to be "lost-in-the-middle".
• Does This Summary Answer My Question? Modeling Query-Focused Summary Readers with Rational Speech Acts
  10 Nov 2024 1 repository listed
  Query-focused summarization (QFS) is the task of generating a summary in response to a user-written query.
• IDEAL: Leveraging Infinite and Dynamic Characterizations of Large Language Models for Query-focused Summarization
  15 Jul 2024 1 repository listed
  Query-focused summarization (QFS) aims to produce summaries that answer particular questions of interest, enabling greater user control and personalization.
• WebCiteS: Attributed Query-Focused Summarization on Chinese Web Search Results with Citations
  4 Mar 2024 1 repository listed
  Enhancing the attribution in large language models (LLMs) is a crucial task.
• Context-aware Decoding Reduces Hallucination in Query-focused Summarization
  21 Dec 2023 1 repository listed
  Query-focused summarization (QFS) aims to provide a summary of a single document/multi documents that can satisfy the information needs of a given query.
• Reinforcement Replaces Supervision: Query focused Summarization using Deep Reinforcement Learning
  29 Nov 2023 1 repository listed
  Query-focused Summarization (QfS) deals with systems that generate summaries from document(s) based on a query.
• QuOTeS: Query-Oriented Technical Summarization
  20 Jun 2023 1 repository listed
  To address this problem, we propose QuOTeS, an interactive system designed to retrieve sentences related to a summary of the research from a collection of potential references and hence assist in the composition of new…
• Peek Across: Improving Multi-Document Modeling via Cross-Document Question-Answering
  24 May 2023 1 repository listed Syntology ran 1 of 18 samples · 17 unverified
  The integration of multi-document pre-training objectives into language models has resulted in remarkable improvements in multi-document downstream tasks.
• A Lightweight Constrained Generation Alternative for Query-focused Summarization
  23 Apr 2023 1 repository listed
  Query-focused summarization (QFS) aims to provide a summary of a document that satisfies information need of a given query and is useful in various IR applications, such as abstractive snippet generation.
• SumREN: Summarizing Reported Speech about Events in News
  2 Dec 2022 1 repository listed
  A primary objective of news articles is to establish the factual record for an event, frequently achieved by conveying both the details of the specified event (i.
• Exploring Neural Models for Query-Focused Summarization
  14 Dec 2021 1 repository listed
  Query-focused summarization (QFS) aims to produce summaries that answer particular questions of interest, enabling greater user control and personalization.
• ASPECTNEWS: Aspect-Oriented Summarization of News Documents
  15 Oct 2021 1 repository listed
  Generic summaries try to cover an entire document and query-based summaries try to answer document-specific questions.
• CLIP-It! Language-Guided Video Summarization
  1 Jul 2021 1 repository listed
  A generic video summary is an abridged version of a video that conveys the whole story and features the most important scenes.
• Improve Query Focused Abstractive Summarization by Incorporating Answer Relevance
  27 May 2021 1 repository listed
  Query focused summarization (QFS) models aim to generate summaries from source documents that can answer the given query.
• Generating Query Focused Summaries from Query-Free Resources
  29 Dec 2020 1 repository listed
  The availability of large-scale datasets has driven the development of neural models that create generic summaries from single or multiple documents.

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