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Aspect-Controllable Opinion Summarization

arXiv 2109.03171 ↗First posted 7 Sep 2021cs.CLcited by 47

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Abstract (arXiv)

Recent work on opinion summarization produces general summaries based on a set of input reviews and the popularity of opinions expressed in them. In this paper, we propose an approach that allows the generation of customized summaries based on aspect queries (e.g., describing the location and room of a hotel). Using a review corpus, we create a synthetic training dataset of (review, summary) pairs enriched with aspect controllers which are induced by a multi-instance learning model that predicts the aspects of a document at different levels of granularity. We fine-tune a pretrained model using our synthetic dataset and generate aspect-specific summaries by modifying the aspect controllers. Experiments on two benchmarks show that our model outperforms the previous state of the art and generates personalized summaries by controlling the number of aspects discussed in them.

Key facts. Cited by 47 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Builds on 26 of its 56 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 7 Sep 2021.

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  2. 2020Extractive Opinion Summarization in Quantized Transformer Spacescited by 76
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  15. 2024Disordered-DABS: A Benchmark for Dynamic Aspect-Based Summarization in Disordered Textscited by 5
  16. 2024STRUM-LLM: Attributed and Structured Contrastive Summarizationcited by 4
  17. 2022Noisy Pairing and Partial Supervision for Stylized Opinion Summarizationcited by 3
  18. 2022OpineSum: Entailment-based self-training for abstractive opinion summarizationcited by 3
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  21. 2025OpinioRAG: Towards Generating User-Centric Opinion Highlights from Large-scale Online Reviewscited by 3
  22. 2023Simple Yet Effective Synthetic Dataset Construction for Unsupervised Opinion Summarizationcited by 2
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  30. 2024Text Classification using Graph Convolutional Networks: A Comprehensive Surveycited by 1
  31. 2024LFOSum: Summarizing Long-form Opinions with Large Language Modelscited by 1
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