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Abstractive Text Summarization Based on Deep Learning and Semantic Content Generalization

2019-07-01ACL 2019Code Available1· sign in to hype

Panagiotis Kouris, Alex, Georgios ridis, Andreas Stafylopatis

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This work proposes a novel framework for enhancing abstractive text summarization based on the combination of deep learning techniques along with semantic data transformations. Initially, a theoretical model for semantic-based text generalization is introduced and used in conjunction with a deep encoder-decoder architecture in order to produce a summary in generalized form. Subsequently, a methodology is proposed which transforms the aforementioned generalized summary into human-readable form, retaining at the same time important informational aspects of the original text and addressing the problem of out-of-vocabulary or rare words. The overall approach is evaluated on two popular datasets with encouraging results.

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