Title
A Unified Model For Extractive And Abstractive Summarization Using Inconsistency Loss
Abstract
We propose a unified model combining the strength of extractive and abstractive summarization. On the one hand, a simple extractive model can obtain sentence-level attention with high ROUGE scores but less readable. On the other hand, a more complicated abstractive model can obtain word-level dynamic attention to generate a more readable paragraph. In our model, sentence-level attention is used to modulate the word-level attention such that words in less attended sentences are less likely to be generated. Moreover, a novel inconsistency loss function is introduced to penalize the inconsistency between two levels of attentions. By end-to-end training our model with the inconsistency loss and original losses of extractive and abstractive models, we achieve state-of-the-art ROUGE scores while being the most informative and readable summarization on the CNN/Daily Mail dataset in a solid human evaluation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.18653/v1/p18-1013
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 56TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (ACL), VOL 1
Field
DocType
Volume
Automatic summarization,Computer science,Paragraph,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Unified Model
Journal
abs/1805.06266
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.45
15
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wan Ting Hsu1281.11
Chieh-Kai Lin290.45
Ming-Ying Lee390.45
Kerui Min490.79
Tang, J.5423.93
Min Sun6108359.15