SWING: Balancing Coverage and Faithfulness for Dialogue Summarization
Missing information is a common issue of dialogue summarization where some information in the reference summaries is not covered in the generated summaries. To address this issue, we propose to utilize natural language inference (NLI) models to improve coverage while avoiding introducing factual inconsistencies. Specifically, we use NLI to compute fine-grained training signals to encourage the model to generate content in the reference summaries that have not been covered, as well as to distinguish between factually consistent and inconsistent generated sentences. Experiments on the DialogSum and SAMSum datasets confirm the effectiveness of the proposed approach in balancing coverage and faithfulness, validated with automatic metrics and human evaluations. Additionally, we compute the correlation between commonly used automatic metrics with human judgments in terms of three different dimensions regarding coverage and factual consistency to provide insight into the most suitable metric for evaluating dialogue summaries.
Code (1)
Tasks
Natural Language InferenceSimilar Papers 제목 키워드 기반
Analyzing and Evaluating Faithfulness in Dialogue Summarization
Dialogue summarization is abstractive in nature, making it suffer from factual errors. The factual correctness of summaries has the highest priority before practical applications. Many efforts have been made to improve f…
Text SummarizationED-FAITH: Evaluating Dialogue Summarization on Faithfulness
Abstractive summarization models typically generate content unfaithful to the input, thus highlighting the significance of evaluating the faithfulness of generated summaries. Most faithfulness metrics are only evaluated …
Abstractive Text SummarizationLanguage ModelingLanguage ModellingBeyond Overlap Metrics: Rewarding Reasoning and Preferences for Faithful Multi-Role Dialogue Summarization
Multi-role dialogue summarization requires modeling complex interactions among multiple speakers while preserving role-specific information and factual consistency. However, most existing methods optimize for automatic m…
Leveraging Non-dialogue Summaries for Dialogue Summarization
To mitigate the lack of diverse dialogue summarization datasets in academia, we present methods to utilize non-dialogue summarization data for enhancing dialogue summarization systems. We apply transformations to documen…
Document SummarizationSemi-Supervised Dialogue Abstractive Summarization via High-Quality Pseudolabel Selection
Semi-supervised dialogue summarization (SSDS) leverages model-generated summaries to reduce reliance on human-labeled data and improve the performance of summarization models. While addressing label noise, previous works…
Abstractive Text SummarizationNatural Language Understanding