| Presentation # | 1 |
| Session: | Natural Language Processing |
| Location: | Kallirhoe Hall |
| Session Time: | Thursday, December 20, 13:30 - 15:30 |
| Presentation Time: | Thursday, December 20, 13:30 - 15:30 |
| Presentation: |
Poster
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| Topic: |
Spoken document summarization: |
| Paper Title: |
ABSTRACTIVE DIALOGUE SUMMARIZATION WITH SENTENCE-GATED MODELING OPTIMIZED BY DIALOGUE ACTS |
| Authors: |
Chih-Wen Goo, Yun-Nung Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan |
| Abstract: |
Neural abstractive summarization has been increasingly studied, where the prior work mainly focused on summarizing single-speaker documents (news, scientific publications, etc). In dialogues, there are diverse interactive patterns between speakers, which are usually defined as dialogue acts. The interactive signals may provide informative cues for better summarizing dialogues. This paper proposes to explicitly leverage dialogue acts in a neural summarization model, where a sentence-gated mechanism is designed for modeling the relationships between dialogue acts and the summary. The experiments show that our proposed model significantly improves the abstractive summarization performance compared to the state-of-the-art baselines on the AMI meeting corpus, demonstrating the usefulness of the interactive signal provided by dialogue acts. |