Don’t Give Me the Details, Just the Summary! Topic-Aware Convolutional Neural Networks for Extreme Summarization
Shashi Narayan, Shay B. Cohen, Mirella Lapata · 2018
We introduce extreme summarization, a new single-document summarization task which does not favor extractive strategies and calls for an abstractive modeling approach.The idea is to create a short, one-sentence news summary answering the question "What is the article about?".We collect a real-world, large scale dataset for this task by harvesting online articles from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).We propose a novel abstractive model which is conditioned on the article's topics and based entirely on convolutional neural networks.We demonstrate experimentally that this architecture captures longrange dependencies in a document and recognizes pertinent content, outperforming an oracle extractive system and state-of-the-art abstractive approaches when evaluated automatically and by humans. 1