Guiding Generation for Abstractive Text Summarization Based on Key Information Guide Network

NAACL 2018  ·  Chenliang Li, Weiran Xu, Si Li, Sheng Gao ·

Neural network models, based on the attentional encoder-decoder model, have good capability in abstractive text summarization. However, these models are hard to be controlled in the process of generation, which leads to a lack of key information. We propose a guiding generation model that combines the extractive method and the abstractive method. Firstly, we obtain keywords from the text by a extractive model. Then, we introduce a Key Information Guide Network (KIGN), which encodes the keywords to the key information representation, to guide the process of generation. In addition, we use a prediction-guide mechanism, which can obtain the long-term value for future decoding, to further guide the summary generation. We evaluate our model on the CNN/Daily Mail dataset. The experimental results show that our model leads to significant improvements.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Benchmark
Text Summarization CNN / Daily Mail (Anonymized) KIGN+Prediction-guide ROUGE-1 38.95 # 10
ROUGE-2 17.12 # 5
ROUGE-L 35.68 # 9

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