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We present the results of the Workshop on Automatic Summarization for Creative Writing 2022 Shared Task on summarization of chapters from novels. In this task, we finetune a pretrained transformer model for long documents called LongformerEncoderDecoder which supports seq2seq tasks for long inputs which can be up to 16k tokens in length. We use the Booksum dataset for longform narrative summarization for training and validation, which maps chapters from novels, plays and stories to highly abstractive human written summaries. We use a summary of summaries approach to generate the final summaries for the blind test set, in which we recursively divide the text into paragraphs, summarize them, concatenate all resultant summaries and repeat this process until either a specified summary length is reached or there is no significant change in summary length in consecutive iterations. Our best model achieves a ROUGE-1 F-1 score of 29.75, a ROUGE-2 F-1 score of 7.89 and a BERT F- 1 score of 54.10 on the shared task blind test dataset.

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LED Finteuning and Recursive Summary Generation for Automatic Summarization of Chapters from Novels

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Challenges and solutions for summarization of book chapters and dialogues

Where did I read that? Challenges in Summarization of Book Chapters and Dialogues

The Creative Summarization Shared Task at COLING 2022 aspires to generate summaries given long-form texts from creative writing. This paper presents the system architecture and the results of our participation in the Scriptbase track that focuses on generating movie plots given movie scripts. The core innovation in our model employs a two-stage hierarchical architecture for movie script summarization. In the first stage, a heuristic extraction method is applied to extract actions and essential dialogues, which reduces the average length of input movie scripts by 66\% from about 24K to 8K tokens. In the second stage, a state-of-the-art encoder-decoder model, Longformer-Encoder-Decoder (LED), is trained with effective fine-tuning methods, \emph{BitFit} and \emph{NoisyTune}. Evaluations on the unseen test set indicate that our system outperforms both zero-shot LED baselines as well as other participants on various automatic metrics and ranks 1st in the Scriptbase track.

Two-Stage Movie Scripts Summarization: An Efficient Method For Low-resource Long Documents Summarization

This presentation is addressing the problem of prime-time television screenplay summarization based on the SummScreen Forever Dreaming dataset. Our approach utilizes extended Longformers combined with sketch supervision including categories specifically for scene descriptions. Our system was able to produce the shortest summaries out of all submissions. While some problems with factual consistency still remain, the system was scoring highest among competitors in the ROUGE and BERTScore evaluation categories.

Long Input Dialogue Summarization with Sketch Supervision for Summarization of Primetime Television Transcripts

This presentation will discuss our shared task paper, which introduces a generalized AMR scheme to better model the long conversations in TV episodes. We hope to expose the diverse relations between concepts and complex dialogue structures so that they will be more accessible to transformer encoders. We will also discuss how the high-level information in a scene of a TV episode may guide the encoding of local tokens and utterances.

AMR-augmented Hierarchical Network for TV TranscriptSummarization

How to efficiently turn long documents into summaries with explorable structure? This has become an increasingly compelling question, given the rapid growth of document amount, length, and complexity. Existing summarization systems face new challenges for long documents: (1) Most systems only produce a generic paragraph-level summary, and cannot include all important points in a long document. (2) State-of-the-art summarizers rely on Transformer, whose time complexity is quadratic to the document length, and scales to hundreds of words at best.

In this talk, I first discuss the design of efficient attentions for long document summarization to handle more than 10k tokens while prior work only processes hundreds of words. I then present a new task: hierarchical question-summary generation, where we summarize the salient content in the source document into a hierarchy of questions and summaries, where each follow-up question inquires about the content of its parent question-summary pair. Learnable hierarchical biases are designed as part of the Transformer attention calculation, to adjust attention weights based on tokens’ relative positions with regard to the document structure. For both work, I will introduce new datasets to support experiments and discuss evaluation challenges.

Long Document Summarization using Efficient Attentions and Document Structure

Figurative language uses words in a way that deviates from their conventionally accepted definitions in order to convey a more complicated meaning or heightened effect. Figurative language generation can be very useful in many downstream tasks including fiction writing, essay writing, dialogue systems, etc. In this talk, I will first give an overview of figurative language generation and then introduce our recent work on a special case of figurative language generation, that is, hyperbole generation. We construct the first large-scale hyperbole corpus HYPO-XL and propose MOVER, an unsupervised approach to hyperbole generation.

Towards Figurative Language Generation

In this talk, we focus on video-to-text summarization and
investigate how to best utilize multimodal information for
summarizing long inputs (e.g., an hour-long TV show) into long
outputs (e.g.,~a multi-sentence summary). We extend
SummScreen (Chen et al., 2021), a dialogue summarization
dataset consisting of transcripts of TV episodes with reference
summaries, and create a multimodal variant by collecting
corresponding full-length videos. We incorporate multimodal
information into a pre-trained textual summarizer efficiently using
adapter modules augmented with a hierarchical structure while tuning
only~5\% of model parameters. Our experiments demonstrate that
multimodal information offers superior performance over more
memory-heavy and fully fine-tuned textual summarization methods.

Hierarchical3D Adapters for Long Video-to-text Summarization

This system description paper details TEAM UFAL’s approach for the SummScreen, TVMegasite subtask of the CreativeSumm shared task. The subtask deals with creat- ing summaries for dialogues from TV Soap operas. We utilized BART based pre-trained model fine-tuned on SamSum dialouge sum- marization dataset. Few examples from Au- toMin dataset and the dataset provided by the organizers were also inserted into the data as a few-shot learning objective. The additional data was manually broken into chunks based on different boundaries in summary and the di- alogue file. For inference we choose a similar strategy as the top-performing team at AutoMin 2021, where the data is split into chunks, either on [SCENE_CHANGE] or exceeding a pre- defined token length, to accommodate the max- imum token possible in the pre-trained model for one example. We implemented two differ- ent strategies as splits on [SCENE_CHANGE] did not necessarily mean having less than 1024 tokens in a segment.

BART and SamSum based few-shot approach for creative Summarization

A significant number of studies apply acoustic and linguistic characteristics of human speech as prominent markers of dementia and depression. However, studies on discriminating depression from dementia are rare. Co-morbid depression is frequent in dementia and these clinical conditions share many overlapping symptoms, but the ability to distinguish between depression and dementia is essential as depression is often curable. In this work, we investigate the ability of clustering approaches in distinguishing between depression and dementia from human speech. We introduce a novel aggregated dataset, which combines narrative speech data from multiple conditions, i.e., Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, healthy control, and depression. We compare linear and non-linear clustering approaches and show that non-linear clustering techniques distinguish better between distinct disease clusters. Our interpretability analysis shows that the main differentiating symptoms between dementia and depression are acoustic abnormality, repetitiveness (or circularity) of speech, word finding difficulty, coherence impairment, and differences in lexical complexity and richness.

Data-driven Approach to Differentiating between Depression and Dementia from Noisy Speech and Language Data

Code-mixing (CM) is a frequently observed phenomenon on social media platforms in multilingual societies such as India. While the increase in code-mixed content on these platforms provides good amount of data for studying various aspects of code-mixing, the lack of automated text analysis tools makes such studies difficult. To overcome the same, tools such as language identifiers and parts of-speech (POS) taggers for analysing code-mixed data have been developed. One such tool is Named Entity Recognition (NER), an important Natural Language Processing (NLP) task, which is not only a subtask of Information Extraction, but is also needed for downstream NLP tasks such as semantic role labeling. While entity extraction from social media data is generally difficult due to its informal nature, code-mixed data further complicates the problem due to its informal, unstructured and incomplete information. 
In this work, we present the first ever corpus for Kannada-English code-mixed social media data with the corresponding named entity tags for NER. We provide strong baselines with machine learning classification models such as CRF, Bi-LSTM, and Bi-LSTM-CRF on our corpus with word, character, and lexical features.


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