Joint Optimization of User-desired Content in Multi-document Summaries by Learning from User Feedback

Avinesh P.V.S, Christian M. Meyer


Abstract
In this paper, we propose an extractive multi-document summarization (MDS) system using joint optimization and active learning for content selection grounded in user feedback. Our method interactively obtains user feedback to gradually improve the results of a state-of-the-art integer linear programming (ILP) framework for MDS. Our methods complement fully automatic methods in producing high-quality summaries with a minimum number of iterations and feedbacks. We conduct multiple simulation-based experiments and analyze the effect of feedback-based concept selection in the ILP setup in order to maximize the user-desired content in the summary.
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P17-1124
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Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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July
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2017
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Vancouver, Canada
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Regina Barzilay, Min-Yen Kan
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1353–1363
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https://aclanthology.org/P17-1124
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P17-1124
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Avinesh P.V.S and Christian M. Meyer. 2017. Joint Optimization of User-desired Content in Multi-document Summaries by Learning from User Feedback. In Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 1353–1363, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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