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most citedSystematically Exploring Redundancy Reduction in Summarizing Long Documents

15 citations · 20 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CL2023

Visual Analytics for Generative Transformer Models

Raymond Li, Ruixin Yang, Wen Xiao +3

While transformer-based models have achieved state-of-the-art results in a variety of classification and generation tasks, their black-box nature makes them challenging for interpr…

cs.CL20225 cited

Entity-based SpanCopy for Abstractive Summarization to Improve the Factual Consistency

Wen Xiao, Giuseppe Carenini

Despite the success of recent abstractive summarizers on automatic evaluation metrics, the generated summaries still present factual inconsistencies with the source document. In th…

cs.CL2021

T3-Vis: a visual analytic framework for Training and fine-Tuning Transformers in NLP

Raymond Li, Wen Xiao, Lanjun Wang +2

Transformers are the dominant architecture in NLP, but their training and fine-tuning is still very challenging. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a visual…

cs.CL2021

W-RST: Towards a Weighted RST-style Discourse Framework

Patrick Huber, Wen Xiao, Giuseppe Carenini

Aiming for a better integration of data-driven and linguistically-inspired approaches, we explore whether RST Nuclearity, assigning a binary assessment of importance between text s…

cs.CL2021

Demoting the Lead Bias in News Summarization via Alternating Adversarial Learning

Linzi Xing, Wen Xiao, Giuseppe Carenini

In news articles the lead bias is a common phenomenon that usually dominates the learning signals for neural extractive summarizers, severely limiting their performance on data wit…

cs.CL2021

Predicting Discourse Trees from Transformer-based Neural Summarizers

Wen Xiao, Patrick Huber, Giuseppe Carenini

Previous work indicates that discourse information benefits summarization. In this paper, we explore whether this synergy between discourse and summarization is bidirectional, by i…