Extractive Summarization with SWAP-NET: Sentences and Words from Alternating Pointer Networks

ACL 2018  ·  Aishwarya Jadhav, Vaibhav Rajan ·

We present a new neural sequence-to-sequence model for extractive summarization called SWAP-NET (Sentences and Words from Alternating Pointer Networks). Extractive summaries comprising a salient subset of input sentences, often also contain important key words. Guided by this principle, we design SWAP-NET that models the interaction of key words and salient sentences using a new two-level pointer network based architecture. SWAP-NET identifies both salient sentences and key words in an input document, and then combines them to form the extractive summary. Experiments on large scale benchmark corpora demonstrate the efficacy of SWAP-NET that outperforms state-of-the-art extractive summarizers.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Benchmark
Text Summarization CNN / Daily Mail (Anonymized) SWAP-NET ROUGE-1 41.6 # 2
ROUGE-2 18.3 # 2
ROUGE-L 37.7 # 2

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