Title
Divide and Conquer - From Complexity to Simplicity for Lay Summarization.
Abstract
We describe our approach for the 1st Computational Linguistics Lay Summary Shared Task CL-LaySumm20. The task is to produce non-technical summaries of scholarly documents. The summary should be within easy grasp of a layman who may not be well versed with the domain of the research article. We propose a two step divide-and-conquer approach. First, we judiciously select segments of the documents that are not overly pedantic and are likely to be of interest to the laity, and over-extract sentences from each segment using an unsupervised network based method. Next, we perform abstractive summarization on these extractions and systematically merge the abstractions. We run ablation studies to establish that each step in our pipeline is critical for improvement in the quality of lay summary. Our approach leverages state-of-the-art pre-trained deep neural network based models as zero-shot learners to achieve high scores on the task.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.18653/v1/2020.sdp-1.40
SDP@EMNLP
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Conference
2020.sdp-1
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rochana Chaturvedi100.34
Saachi .200.34
Jaspreet Singh Dhani300.34
Anurag Joshi400.34
Ankush Khanna500.34
Neha Tomar600.34
Swagata Duari722.08
Alka Khurana800.34
Vasudha Bhatnagar918117.69