Data Skeptic

Automatic Summarization

Jan 29, 2021
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INSIGHT

Linguistics Reenters NLP

  • The field of natural language processing is revisiting linguistics to enhance AI models.
  • Early NLP discarded linguistic insights but now re-incorporates them for better understanding and task suitability.
INSIGHT

Overview of Summarization Methods

  • Neural sequence-to-sequence models now dominate summarization but older extractive methods remain common.
  • Evaluation relies heavily on automated metrics like ROUGE and BLEU, which measure lexical and semantic similarity.
ANECDOTE

User Experience With Extractive Summarization

  • Kal Polich shared his unimpressed experience with extractive summarization tools selecting seemingly random snippets.
  • Maartje explained that extractive approaches can feel disjointed and training data biases may cause strange sentence choices.
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