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title = "Transformer-based Models for Long Document Summarisation in Financial Domain",
author = "Khanna, Urvashi and
Ghodratnama, Samira and
Moll ́a, Diego and
Beheshti, Amin",
editor = "El-Haj, Mahmoud and
Rayson, Paul and
Zmandar, Nadhem",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 4th Financial Narrative Processing Workshop @LREC2022",
month = jun,
year = "2022",
address = "Marseille, France",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.fnp-1.10/",
pages = "73--78",
abstract = "Summarisation of long financial documents is a challenging task due to the lack of large-scale datasets and the need for domain knowledge experts to create human-written summaries. Traditional summarisation approaches that generate a summary based on the content cannot produce summaries comparable to human-written ones and thus are rarely used in practice. In this work, we use the Longformer-Encoder-Decoder (LED) model to handle long financial reports. We describe our experiments and participating systems in the financial narrative summarisation shared task. Multi-stage fine-tuning helps the model generalise better on niche domains and avoids the problem of catastrophic forgetting. We further investigate the effect of the staged fine-tuning approach on the FNS dataset. Our systems achieved promising results in terms of ROUGE scores on the validation dataset."
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%T Transformer-based Models for Long Document Summarisation in Financial Domain
%A Khanna, Urvashi
%A Ghodratnama, Samira
%A Moll ́a, Diego
%A Beheshti, Amin
%Y El-Haj, Mahmoud
%Y Rayson, Paul
%Y Zmandar, Nadhem
%S Proceedings of the 4th Financial Narrative Processing Workshop @LREC2022
%D 2022
%8 June
%I European Language Resources Association
%C Marseille, France
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%X Summarisation of long financial documents is a challenging task due to the lack of large-scale datasets and the need for domain knowledge experts to create human-written summaries. Traditional summarisation approaches that generate a summary based on the content cannot produce summaries comparable to human-written ones and thus are rarely used in practice. In this work, we use the Longformer-Encoder-Decoder (LED) model to handle long financial reports. We describe our experiments and participating systems in the financial narrative summarisation shared task. Multi-stage fine-tuning helps the model generalise better on niche domains and avoids the problem of catastrophic forgetting. We further investigate the effect of the staged fine-tuning approach on the FNS dataset. Our systems achieved promising results in terms of ROUGE scores on the validation dataset.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2022.fnp-1.10/
%P 73-78
Markdown (Informal)
[Transformer-based Models for Long Document Summarisation in Financial Domain](https://aclanthology.org/2022.fnp-1.10/) (Khanna et al., FNP 2022)
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