Extractive summarization using siamese hierarchical transformer encoders

[EN] In this paper, we present an extractive approach to document summarization, the Siamese Hierarchical Transformer Encoders system, that is based on the use of siamese neural networks and the transformer encoders which are extended in a hierarchical way. The system, trained for binary classificat...

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Autores: González-Barba, José Ángel, Segarra Soriano, Encarnación, García-Granada, Fernando|||0000-0003-2213-4213, Sanchís Arnal, Emilio|||0000-0002-6737-4723, Hurtado Oliver, Lluis Felip|||0000-0002-1877-0455
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/170290
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/170290
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Siamese neural networks
Self attention
Extractive summarization
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Sumario:[EN] In this paper, we present an extractive approach to document summarization, the Siamese Hierarchical Transformer Encoders system, that is based on the use of siamese neural networks and the transformer encoders which are extended in a hierarchical way. The system, trained for binary classification, is able to assign attention scores to each sentence in the document. These scores are used to select the most relevant sentences to build the summary. The main novelty of our proposal is the use of self-attention mechanisms at sentence level for document summarization, instead of using only attentions at word level. The experimentation carried out using the CNN/DailyMail summarization corpus shows promising results in-line with the state-of-the-art.