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Exploring Content Selection in Summarization of Novel Chapters

arXiv 2005.01840 ↗First posted 4 May 2020cs.CLcited by 29

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Abstract (arXiv)

We present a new summarization task, generating summaries of novel chapters using summary/chapter pairs from online study guides. This is a harder task than the news summarization task, given the chapter length as well as the extreme paraphrasing and generalization found in the summaries. We focus on extractive summarization, which requires the creation of a gold-standard set of extractive summaries. We present a new metric for aligning reference summary sentences with chapter sentences to create gold extracts and also experiment with different alignment methods. Our experiments demonstrate significant improvement over prior alignment approaches for our task as shown through automatic metrics and a crowd-sourced pyramid analysis. We make our data collection scripts available at https://github.com/manestay/novel-chapter-dataset .

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  1. 2021Recursively Summarizing Books with Human Feedbackcited by 287
  2. 2021BookSum: A Collection of Datasets for Long-form Narrative Summarizationcited by 184
  3. 2024A Comprehensive Survey on Process-Oriented Automatic Text Summarization with Exploration of LLM-Based Methodscited by 101
  4. 2021SummScreen: A Dataset for Abstractive Screenplay Summarizationcited by 80
  5. 2022Fantastic Questions and Where to Find Them: FairytaleQA -- An Authentic Dataset for Narrative Comprehensioncited by 79
  6. 2022SQuALITY: Building a Long-Document Summarization Dataset the Hard Waycited by 50
  7. 2021"Let Your Characters Tell Their Story": A Dataset for Character-Centric Narrative Understandingcited by 48
  8. 2022Learning to Revise References for Faithful Summarizationcited by 28
  9. 2023Personality Understanding of Fictional Characters during Book Readingcited by 20
  10. 2022SNaC: Coherence Error Detection for Narrative Summarizationcited by 19
  11. 2024Reading Subtext: Evaluating Large Language Models on Short Story Summarization with Writerscited by 19
  12. 2022TVShowGuess: Character Comprehension in Stories as Speaker Guessingcited by 17
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  2. 2022A Survey of Machine Narrative Reading Comprehension Assessmentscited by 10
  3. 2025NexusSum: Hierarchical LLM Agents for Long-Form Narrative Summarizationcited by 10
  4. 2023Generating EDU Extracts for Plan-Guided Summary Re-Rankingcited by 9
  5. 2024Select and Summarize: Scene Saliency for Movie Script Summarizationcited by 9
  6. 2023The Current State of Summarizationcited by 6
  7. 2022CREATIVESUMM: Shared Task on Automatic Summarization for Creative Writingcited by 5
  8. 2022NarraSum: A Large-Scale Dataset for Abstractive Narrative Summarizationcited by 5
  9. 2023Hybrid Long Document Summarization using C2F-FAR and ChatGPT: A Practical Studycited by 5
  10. 2025Fine-Tuned LLMs are "Time Capsules" for Tracking Societal Bias Through Bookscited by 4
  11. 2024Previously on the Stories: Recap Snippet Identification for Story Readingcited by 3
  12. 2024The State and Fate of Summarization Datasets: A Surveycited by 3
  13. 2026Contrastive Learning with Narrative Twins for Modeling Story Saliencecited by 2
  14. 2023AbLit: A Resource for Analyzing and Generating Abridged Versions of English Literaturecited by 1
  15. 2025Tell, Don't Show: Leveraging Language Models' Abstractive Retellings to Model Literary Themescited by 1
  16. 2022Novel Chapter Abstractive Summarization using Spinal Tree Aware Sub-Sentential Content Selectioncited by 0
  17. 2025Is the Top Still Spinning? Evaluating Subjectivity in Narrative Understandingcited by 0