SCE-SUMMARY at the FNS 2020 shared task

Marina Litvak, Natalia Vanetik, Tzvi Puchinsky

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Abstract

With the constantly growing amount of information, the need arises to automatically summarize this written information. One of the challenges in the summary is that it’s difficult to generalize. For example, summarizing a news article is very different from summarizing a financial earnings report. This paper reports an approach for summarizing financial texts, which are different from the documents from other domains at least in three parameters: length, structure, and format. Our approach considers these parameters, it is adapted to hierarchical structure of sections, document length, and special “language”. The approach builds an hierarchical summary, visualized as a tree with summaries under different discourse topics. The approach was evaluated using extrinsic and intrinsic automated evaluations, which are reported in this paper. As all participants of the Financial Narrative Summarisation (FNS 2020) shared task, we used FNS2020 dataset for evaluations.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFNP-FNS 2020 - 1st Joint Workshop on Financial Narrative Processing and MultiLing Financial Summarisation, Proceedings
EditorsMahmoud El-Haj, Vasiliki Athanasakou, Sira Ferradans, Catherine Salzedo, Ans Elhag, Houda Bouamor, Marina Litvak, Paul Rayson, George Giannakopoulos, Nikiforos Pittaras
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages124-129
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781952148408
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event1st Joint Workshop on Financial Narrative Processing and MultiLing Financial Summarisation, FNP-FNS 2020 - Virtual, Barcelona, Spain
Duration: 12 Dec 2020 → …

Publication series

NameFNP-FNS 2020 - 1st Joint Workshop on Financial Narrative Processing and MultiLing Financial Summarisation, Proceedings

Conference

Conference1st Joint Workshop on Financial Narrative Processing and MultiLing Financial Summarisation, FNP-FNS 2020
Country/TerritorySpain
CityVirtual, Barcelona
Period12/12/20 → …

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Finance
  • General Mathematics

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