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Title Generation with Quasi-Synchronous Grammar

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Title Generation with Quasi-Synchronous Grammar
The task of selecting information and rendering it appropriately appears in multiple contexts in summarization. In this paper we present a model that simultaneously optimizes selection and rendering preferences. The model operates over a phrase-based representation of the source document which we obtain by merging PCFG parse trees and dependency graphs. Selection preferences for individual phrases are learned discriminatively, while a quasi-synchronous grammar (Smith and Eisner, 2006) captures rendering preferences such as paraphrases and compressions. Based on an integer linear programming formulation, the model learns to generate summaries that satisfy both types of preferences, while ensuring that length, topic coverage and grammar constraints are met. Experiments on headline and image caption generation show that our method obtains state-of-the-art performance using essentially the same model for both tasks without any major modifications.
Kristian Woodsend, Yansong Feng, Mirella Lapata
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Type Journal
Year 2010
Where EMNLP
Authors Kristian Woodsend, Yansong Feng, Mirella Lapata
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