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Guided neural language generation for abstractive summarization using abstract meaning representation

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Peer-reviewed

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Hardy 

Abstract

Recent work on abstractive summarization has made progress with neural encoder-decoder architectures. However, such models are often challenged due to their lack of explicit semantic modeling of the source document and its summary. In this paper, we extend previous work on abstractive summarization using Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) with a neural language generation stage which we guide using the source document. We demonstrate that this guidance improves summarization results by 7.4 and 10.5 points in ROUGE-2 using gold standard AMR parses and parses obtained from an off-the-shelf parser respectively. We also find that the summarization performance using the latter is 2 ROUGE-2 points higher than that of a well-established neural encoder-decoder approach trained on a larger dataset. Code is available at https://github.com/sheffieldnlp/AMR2Text-summ.

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47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4704 Linguistics

Journal Title

Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2018

Conference Name

Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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Association for Computational Linguistics
Sponsorship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/R021643/2)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/M005429/1)