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Entity-level Factual Consistency Of Abstractive Text Summarization

Feng Nan, Ramesh Nallapati, Zhiguo Wang, Cicero Nogueira Dos Santos, Henghui Zhu, Dejiao Zhang, Kathleen McKeown, Bing Xiang Β· Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume Β· 2021

A key challenge for abstractive summarization is ensuring factual consistency of the generated summary with respect to the original document. For example, state-of-the-art models trained on existing datasets exhibit entity hallucination, generating names of entities that are not present in the source document. We propose a set of new metrics to quantify the entity-level factual consistency of generated summaries and we show that the entity hallucination problem can be alleviated by simply filtering the training data. In addition, we propose a summary-worthy entity classification task to the training process as well as a joint entity and summary generation approach, which yield further improvements in entity level metrics.

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