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A Compare-Aggregate Model with External Knowledge for Query-Focused Summarization

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Query-focused extractive summarization aims to create a summary by selecting sentences from original document according to query relevance and redundancy. With recent advances of neural network models in natural language processing, attention mechanism is widely used to address text summarization task. However, existing methods are always based on a coarse-grained sentence-level attention, which likely to miss the intent of query and cause relatedness misalignment. To address the above problem, we introduce a fine-grained and interactive word-by-word attention to the query-focused extractive summarization system. In that way, we capture the real intent of query. We utilize a Compare-Aggregate model to implement the idea, and simulate the interactively attentive reading and thinking of human behavior. We also leverage external conceptual knowledge to enrich the model and fill the expression gap between query and document. In order to evaluate our method, we conduct experiments on DUC 2005–2007 query-focused summarization benchmark datasets. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed approach achieves better performance than state-of-the-art.

Keywords

  • Query-focused summarization
  • Extractive summarization
  • Attention
  • External knowledge

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This work is supported in part by the Project, Grant No. BMKY2019B04-1 and the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Grant No. XDC02040400.

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  1. Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Jing Ya, Tingwen Liu & Li Guo

  2. School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Jing Ya, Tingwen Liu & Li Guo

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  3. Victoria University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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  4. Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia

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Ya, J., Liu, T., Guo, L. (2020). A Compare-Aggregate Model with External Knowledge for Query-Focused Summarization. In: Huang, Z., Beek, W., Wang, H., Zhou, R., Zhang, Y. (eds) Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2020. WISE 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12343. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62008-0_5

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