Bringing Structure into Summaries: a Faceted Summarization Dataset for Long Scientific Documents

Rui Meng, Khushboo Thaker, Lei Zhang, Yue Dong, Xingdi Yuan, Tong Wang, Daqing He


Abstract
Faceted summarization provides briefings of a document from different perspectives. Readers can quickly comprehend the main points of a long document with the help of a structured outline. However, little research has been conducted on this subject, partially due to the lack of large-scale faceted summarization datasets. In this study, we present FacetSum, a faceted summarization benchmark built on Emerald journal articles, covering a diverse range of domains. Different from traditional document-summary pairs, FacetSum provides multiple summaries, each targeted at specific sections of a long document, including the purpose, method, findings, and value. Analyses and empirical results on our dataset reveal the importance of bringing structure into summaries. We believe FacetSum will spur further advances in summarization research and foster the development of NLP systems that can leverage the structured information in both long texts and summaries.
Anthology ID:
2021.acl-short.137
Volume:
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers)
Month:
August
Year:
2021
Address:
Online
Editors:
Chengqing Zong, Fei Xia, Wenjie Li, Roberto Navigli
Venues:
ACL | IJCNLP
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
Note:
Pages:
1080–1089
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-short.137
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.acl-short.137
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Cite (ACL):
Rui Meng, Khushboo Thaker, Lei Zhang, Yue Dong, Xingdi Yuan, Tong Wang, and Daqing He. 2021. Bringing Structure into Summaries: a Faceted Summarization Dataset for Long Scientific Documents. In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 1080–1089, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Bringing Structure into Summaries: a Faceted Summarization Dataset for Long Scientific Documents (Meng et al., ACL-IJCNLP 2021)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-short.137.pdf
Video:
 https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-short.137.mp4
Code
 hfthair/emerald_crawler +  additional community code
Data
FacetSum