Towards Summarization for Social Media - Results of the TL;DR Challenge
Shahbaz Syed, Michael Völske, Nedim Lipka, Benno Stein, Hinrich Schütze, Martin Potthast · 2019
With most summarization research focused on the news domain and scientific papers, little is known about the capabilities of the state of the art at summarizing more informal text.Today, the vast majority of text on the web is informally written on social media, and staying on top of the fast-paced stream of posts originating from one's subscriptions and followees is a burden to many.The TL;DR challenge marks a first step towards developing new summarization technology for social media, focusing on abstractive summarization.This paper reports the results of the challenge and describes our manual evaluation of the submissions.Finally, we discuss the expected properties of a good summary after analyzing the comments provided by human annotators.