How Far are We from Robust Long Abstractive Summarization?
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Ju, J
Zhang, H
Liu, M
Pan, S
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Ive summarization has made tremendous progress in recent years. In this work, we perform fine-grained human annotations to evaluate long document abstractive summarization systems (i.e., models and metrics) with the aim of implementing them to generate reliable summaries. For long document abstractive models, we show that the constant strive for state-of-the-art ROUGE results can lead us to generate more relevant summaries but not factual ones. For long document evaluation metrics, human evaluation results show that ROUGE remains the best at evaluating the relevancy of a summary. It also reveals important limitations of factuality metrics in detecting different types of factual errors and the reasons behind the effectiveness of BARTScore. We then suggest promising directions in the endeavor of developing factual consistency metrics. Finally, we release our annotated long document dataset with the hope that it can contribute to the development of metrics across a broader range of summarization settings.
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Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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© 2022 Association for Computational Linguistics. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Koh, HY; Ju, J; Zhang, H; Liu, M; Pan, S, How Far are We from Robust Long Abstractive Summarization?, Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022, pp. 2682-2698