Constrained Abstractive Summarization: Preserving Factual Consistency with Constrained Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.12723v2
• Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 05:20:15 GMT
• Title: Constrained Abstractive Summarization: Preserving Factual Consistency with Constrained Generation
• Authors: Yuning Mao, Xiang Ren, Heng Ji, Jiawei Han
• Abstract summary: We propose Constrained Abstractive Summarization (CAS), a general setup that preserves the factual consistency of abstractive summarization. We adopt lexically constrained decoding, a technique generally applicable to autoregressive generative models, to fulfill CAS. We observe up to 13.8 ROUGE-2 gains when only one manual constraint is used in interactive summarization.
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• Abstract: Despite significant progress, state-of-the-art abstractive summarization methods are still prone to hallucinate content inconsistent with the source document. In this paper, we propose Constrained Abstractive Summarization (CAS), a general setup that preserves the factual consistency of abstractive summarization by specifying tokens as constraints that must be present in the summary. We adopt lexically constrained decoding, a technique generally applicable to autoregressive generative models, to fulfill CAS and conduct experiments in two scenarios: (1) automatic summarization without human involvement, where keyphrases are extracted from the source document and used as constraints; (2) human-guided interactive summarization, where human feedback in the form of manual constraints are used to guide summary generation. Automatic and human evaluations on two benchmark datasets demonstrate that CAS improves both lexical overlap (ROUGE) and factual consistency of abstractive summarization. In particular, we observe up to 13.8 ROUGE-2 gains when only one manual constraint is used in interactive summarization.

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