An Abstract Summarization Method Combining Global Topics
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL(2022)
Abstract
Featured Application Provide a technical basis for the ongoing application of sentiment analysis, opinion extraction, automatic question answering system, etc. Existing abstractive summarization methods only focus on the correlation between the original words and the summary words, ignoring the topics' influence on the summaries. To this end, an abstract summarization method combining global topic information, ACGT, is proposed. A topic information extractor, based on Latent Dirichlet Allocation, is constructed to extract key topic information from the original text, and an attention module is built to fuse key topic information with the original text representation. The summary is then generated by combining a pointer generation network and coverage mechanism. With evaluation metrics of ROUGE-1, ROUGE-2, and ROUGE-L, the experimental results of ACGT in the English dataset CNN/Daily Mail are 0.96%, 2.44%, and 1.03% higher than the baseline model, respectively. In the Chinese dataset, LCSTS, ACGT shows a higher performance than the baseline method by 1.19%, 1.03%, and 0.85%, respectively. Our results demonstrate that the performance of summaries is significantly correlated with the number of topics that are introduced. Case studies show that the introduction of topic information can improve both the coverage of original text topics and the fluency of summaries.
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natural language processing,automatic text summarization,topic model,pointer generation network,BERT
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