Factual Error Correction for Abstractive Summaries Using Entity Retrieval

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.08263v1
• Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2022 11:35:02 GMT
• Title: Factual Error Correction for Abstractive Summaries Using Entity Retrieval
• Authors: Hwanhee Lee, Cheoneum Park, Seunghyun Yoon, Trung Bui, Franck Dernoncourt, Juae Kim, Kyomin Jung
• Abstract summary: We propose an efficient factual error correction system RFEC based on entities retrieval post-editing process. RFEC retrieves the evidence sentences from the original document by comparing the sentences with the target summary. Next, RFEC detects the entity-level errors in the summaries by considering the evidence sentences and substitutes the wrong entities with the accurate entities from the evidence sentences.
• Score: 57.01193722520597
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Despite the recent advancements in abstractive summarization systems leveraged from large-scale datasets and pre-trained language models, the factual correctness of the summary is still insufficient. One line of trials to mitigate this problem is to include a post-editing process that can detect and correct factual errors in the summary. In building such a post-editing system, it is strongly required that 1) the process has a high success rate and interpretability and 2) has a fast running time. Previous approaches focus on regeneration of the summary using the autoregressive models, which lack interpretability and require high computing resources. In this paper, we propose an efficient factual error correction system RFEC based on entities retrieval post-editing process. RFEC first retrieves the evidence sentences from the original document by comparing the sentences with the target summary. This approach greatly reduces the length of text for a system to analyze. Next, RFEC detects the entity-level errors in the summaries by considering the evidence sentences and substitutes the wrong entities with the accurate entities from the evidence sentences. Experimental results show that our proposed error correction system shows more competitive performance than baseline methods in correcting the factual errors with a much faster speed.

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