Neural abstractive summarization has been increasingly studied, where the prior work mainly focused on summarizing single-speaker documents (news, scientific publications, etc). In dialogues, there are diverse interactive patterns between speakers, which are usually defined as dialogue acts. The interactive signals may provide informative cues for better summarizing dialogues. This paper proposes to explicitly leverage dialogue acts in a neural summarization model, where a sentence-gated mechanism is designed for modeling the relationships between dialogue acts and the summary. The experiments show that our proposed model significantly improves the abstractive summarization performance compared to the state-of-the-art baselines on the AMI meeting corpus, demonstrating the usefulness of the interactive signal provided by dialogue acts. 1
REF annotated topic descriptions in AMI meeting corpus as the summary.
Abstractive Dialogue Summarization with Sentence-Gated Modeling Optimized by Dialogue Acts
2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT)
2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT)
Computer Science