Structured Summarization: Unified Text Segmentation and Segment Labeling as a Generation Task
Text segmentation aims to divide text into contiguous, semantically coherent segments, while segment labeling deals with producing labels for each segment. Past work has shown success in tackling segmentation and labeling for documents and conversations. This has been possible with a combination of task-specific pipelines, supervised and unsupervised learning objectives. In this work, we propose a single encoder-decoder neural network that can handle long documents and conversations, trained simultaneously for both segmentation and segment labeling using only standard supervision. We successfully show a way to solve the combined task as a pure generation task, which we refer to as structured summarization. We apply the same technique to both document and conversational data, and we show state of the art performance across datasets for both segmentation and labeling, under both high- and low-resource settings. Our results establish a strong case for considering text segmentation and segment labeling as a whole, and moving towards general-purpose techniques that don't depend on domain expertise or task-specific components.
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