Abstractive Text Summarization Based on Deep Learning and Semantic Content Generalization

Panagiotis Kouris, Georgios Alexandridis, Andreas Stafylopatis


Abstract
This work proposes a novel framework for enhancing abstractive text summarization based on the combination of deep learning techniques along with semantic data transformations. Initially, a theoretical model for semantic-based text generalization is introduced and used in conjunction with a deep encoder-decoder architecture in order to produce a summary in generalized form. Subsequently, a methodology is proposed which transforms the aforementioned generalized summary into human-readable form, retaining at the same time important informational aspects of the original text and addressing the problem of out-of-vocabulary or rare words. The overall approach is evaluated on two popular datasets with encouraging results.
Anthology ID:
P19-1501
Volume:
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Month:
July
Year:
2019
Address:
Florence, Italy
Editors:
Anna Korhonen, David Traum, Lluís Màrquez
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
5082–5092
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P19-1501
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P19-1501
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Panagiotis Kouris, Georgios Alexandridis, and Andreas Stafylopatis. 2019. Abstractive Text Summarization Based on Deep Learning and Semantic Content Generalization. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 5082–5092, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Abstractive Text Summarization Based on Deep Learning and Semantic Content Generalization (Kouris et al., ACL 2019)
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Code
 pkouris/abtextsum