Better Rewards Yield Better Summaries: Learning to Summarise Without References

2 code implementations • IJCNLP 2019 • Florian Böhm, Yang Gao, Christian M. Meyer, Ori Shapira, Ido Dagan, Iryna Gurevych

Human evaluation experiments show that, compared to the state-of-the-art supervised-learning systems and ROUGE-as-rewards RL summarisation systems, the RL systems using our learned rewards during training generate summarieswith higher human ratings.

Reinforcement Learning (RL)