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Inverted Pyramid writing style. The first few sentences of news articles contain the important information making Lead-3 baselines outperforming most of the systems.
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Sequence-to-sequence models have recently gained the state of the art performance in summarization. However, not too many large-scale high-quality datasets are available and almost all the available ones are mainly news articles with specific writing style. Moreover, abstractive human-style systems involving description of the content at a deeper l...
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... articles are written by jour- nalists and follow the journalistic style. The jour- nalists usually follow the Inverted Pyramid style (Po¨ttkerPo¨ttker, 2003) (depicted in Figure 1) to priori- tize and structure a text by starting with mention- ing the most important, interesting or attention- grabbing elements of a story in the opening para- graphs and later adding details and any back- ground information. This writing style might be the cause why lead-3 baselines (where the first three sentences are selected to form the summary) usually score higher compared to the existing sum- marization systems. ...
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... articles are written by jour- nalists and follow the journalistic style. The jour- nalists usually follow the Inverted Pyramid style (Po¨ttkerPo¨ttker, 2003) (depicted in Figure 1) to priori- tize and structure a text by starting with mention- ing the most important, interesting or attention- grabbing elements of a story in the opening para- graphs and later adding details and any back- ground information. This writing style might be the cause why lead-3 baselines (where the first three sentences are selected to form the summary) usually score higher compared to the existing sum- marization systems. ...
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