Title
Understanding Points Of Correspondence Between Sentences For Abstractive Summarization
Abstract
Fusing sentences containing disparate content is a remarkable human ability that helps create informative and succinct summaries Such a simple task for humans has remained challenging for modern abstractive summarizers, substantially restricting their applicability in real-world scenarios. In this paper, we present an investigation into fusing sentences drawn from a document by introducing the notion of points of correspondence, which are cohesive devices that tie any two sentences together into a coherent text. The types of points of correspondence are delineated by text cohesion theory, covering pronominal and nominal referencing, repetition and beyond. We create a dataset containing the documents, source and fusion sentences, and human annotations of points of correspondence between sentences. Our dataset bridges the gap between coreference resolution and summarization. It is publicly shared to serve as a basis for future work to measure the success of sentence fusion systems.(1)
Year
Venue
DocType
2020
ACL
Conference
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
2020.acl-srw
0
0.34
References 
Authors
1
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Logan Lebanoff182.12
Muchovej John200.34
Franck Dernoncourt314935.39
Kim Doo Soon400.34
Wang Lidan500.34
Chang Walter600.34
Fei Liu734523.90