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T5-Based Model for Abstractive Summarization: A Semi-Supervised Learning Approach with Consistency Loss Functions

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Wang, Mingye, Xie, Pan, Du, Yao, Hu, Xiaohui·2023·Applied Sciences

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Text summarization is a prominent task in natural language processing (NLP) that condenses lengthy texts into concise summaries. Despite the success of existing supervised models, they often rely on datasets of well-constructed text pairs, which can be insufficient for languages with limited annotated data, such as Chinese. To address this issue, we propose a semi-supervised learning method for text summarization. Our method is inspired by the cycle-consistent adversarial network (CycleGAN) and considers text summarization as a style transfer task. The model is trained by using a similar procedure and loss function to those of CycleGAN and learns to transfer the style of a document to its summary and vice versa. Our method can be applied to multiple languages, but this paper focuses on its performance on Chinese documents. We trained a T5-based model and evaluated it on two datasets, CSL and LCSTS, and the results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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Authors
Wang, M., Xie, P., Du, Y., & Hu, X.
Affiliations
  • Beihang University (CN)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
Corresponding author
Wang, Mingye
Venue
Applied Sciences
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2023-06-14
Volume
13
Issue
12
Pages
7111
ISSN
2076-3417 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4380998171
Cited by
46
References
30
Citations by year
2026: 7 · 2025: 26 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 1
FWCI
4.24
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Applied Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
key R&D project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (2020-JCJQ-ZD-079-00)
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, semi-supervised learning, consistency loss, CycleGAN, style transfer, T5, Chinese text summarization, limited labeled data

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