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Generating Wikipedia by Summarizing Long Sequences
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- We show that generating English Wikipedia articles can be approached as a multi- document summarization of source documents. We use extractive summarization to coarsely identify salient information and a neural abstractive model to generate the article. For the abstractive model, we introduce a decoder-only architecture that can scalably attend to very long sequences, much longer than typical encoder- decoder architectures used in sequence transduction. We show that this model can generate fluent, coherent multi-sentence paragraphs and even whole Wikipedia articles. When given reference documents, we show it can extract relevant factual information as reflected in perplexity, ROUGE scores and human evaluations.<br />Comment: Published as a conference paper at ICLR 2018
- Subjects :
- Computer Science - Computation and Language
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- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1801.10198
- Document Type :
- Working Paper