Generative Adversarial Network for Abstractive Text Summarization

26 Nov 2017  ·  Linqing Liu, Yao Lu, Min Yang, Qiang Qu, Jia Zhu, Hongyan Li ·

In this paper, we propose an adversarial process for abstractive text summarization, in which we simultaneously train a generative model G and a discriminative model D. In particular, we build the generator G as an agent of reinforcement learning, which takes the raw text as input and predicts the abstractive summarization. We also build a discriminator which attempts to distinguish the generated summary from the ground truth summary. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our model achieves competitive ROUGE scores with the state-of-the-art methods on CNN/Daily Mail dataset. Qualitatively, we show that our model is able to generate more abstractive, readable and diverse summaries.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Text Summarization CNN / Daily Mail (Anonymized) GAN ROUGE-1 39.92 # 5
ROUGE-2 17.65 # 4
ROUGE-L 36.71 # 7

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