Objective Function Learning to Match Human Judgements for Optimization-Based Summarization

Maxime Peyrard, Iryna Gurevych


Abstract
Supervised summarization systems usually rely on supervision at the sentence or n-gram level provided by automatic metrics like ROUGE, which act as noisy proxies for human judgments. In this work, we learn a summary-level scoring function 𝜃 including human judgments as supervision and automatically generated data as regularization. We extract summaries with a genetic algorithm using 𝜃 as a fitness function. We observe strong and promising performances across datasets in both automatic and manual evaluation.
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N18-2103
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Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers)
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June
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2018
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New Orleans, Louisiana
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Marilyn Walker, Heng Ji, Amanda Stent
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NAACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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654–660
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https://aclanthology.org/N18-2103
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10.18653/v1/N18-2103
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Maxime Peyrard and Iryna Gurevych. 2018. Objective Function Learning to Match Human Judgements for Optimization-Based Summarization. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers), pages 654–660, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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