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Abstractive Summarization: A Survey of the State of the Art
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The focus of automatic text summarization research has exhibited a gradual shift from extractive methods to abstractive methods in recent years, owing in part to advances in neural methods. Originally developed for machine translation, neural methods provide a viable framework for obtaining an abstract representation of the meaning of an input text and generating informative, fluent, and human-like summaries. This paper surveys existing approaches to abstractive summarization, focusing on the recently developed neural approaches.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lin, H., & Ng, V.
- Affiliations
- The University of Texas at Dallas (US)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- Published
- 2019-07-17
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 01
- Pages
- 9815-9822
- ISSN
- 2159-5399 (ISSN-L)
- 2374-3468
- OpenAlex
- W2964813902
- Cited by
- 120
- References
- 80
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 23 · 2023: 26 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 16
- Type
- conference abstract
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.aaai.org/ (unspecified)
- Locations
- Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (publishedVersion)
- AAAI Publications (The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (1528037)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Keywords
- abstractive summarization, text summarization, neural summarization, extractive summarization, machine translation, summary generation
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