• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
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KI-HABS: Key Information Guided Hierarchical Abstractive Summarization

Vol. 15, No. 12, December 31, 2021
10.3837/tiis.2021.12.001, Download Paper (Free):

Abstract

With the unprecedented growth of textual information on the Internet, an efficient automatic summarization system has become an urgent need. Recently, the neural network models based on the encoder-decoder with an attention mechanism have demonstrated powerful capabilities in the sentence summarization task. However, for paragraphs or longer document summarization, these models fail to mine the core information in the input text, which leads to information loss and repetitions. In this paper, we propose an abstractive document summarization method by applying guidance signals of key sentences to the encoder based on the hierarchical encoder-decoder architecture, denoted as KI-HABS. Specifically, we first train an extractor to extract key sentences in the input document by the hierarchical bidirectional GRU. Then, we encode the key sentences to the key information representation in the sentence level. Finally, we adopt key information representation guided selective encoding strategies to filter source information, which establishes a connection between the key sentences and the document. We use the CNN/Daily Mail and Gigaword datasets to evaluate our model. The experimental results demonstrate that our method generates more informative and concise summaries, achieving better performance than the competitive models.


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[IEEE Style]
M. Zhang, G. Zhou, W. Yu, W. Liu, "KI-HABS: Key Information Guided Hierarchical Abstractive Summarization," KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, vol. 15, no. 12, pp. 4275-4291, 2021. DOI: 10.3837/tiis.2021.12.001.

[ACM Style]
Mengli Zhang, Gang Zhou, Wanting Yu, and Wenfen Liu. 2021. KI-HABS: Key Information Guided Hierarchical Abstractive Summarization. KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, 15, 12, (2021), 4275-4291. DOI: 10.3837/tiis.2021.12.001.

[BibTeX Style]
@article{tiis:25138, title="KI-HABS: Key Information Guided Hierarchical Abstractive Summarization", author="Mengli Zhang and Gang Zhou and Wanting Yu and Wenfen Liu and ", journal="KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems", DOI={10.3837/tiis.2021.12.001}, volume={15}, number={12}, year="2021", month={December}, pages={4275-4291}}