In this paper, we investigate the sentence summarization task that produces a summary from a source sentence. Neural sequence-to-sequence models have gained considerable success for this task, while most existing approaches only focus on improving word overlap between the generated summary and the reference, which ignore the correctness, i.e., the summary should not contain error messages with respect to the source sentence. We argue that correctness is an essential requirement for summarization systems. Considering a correct summary is semantically entailed by the source sentence, we incorporate entailment knowledge into abstractive summarization models. We propose an entailment-aware encoder under multi-task framework (i.e., summarization generation and entailment recognition) and an entailment-aware decoder by entailment Reward Augmented Maximum Likelihood (RAML) training. Experimental results demonstrate that our models significantly outperform baselines from the aspects of informativeness and correctness.
REF incorporated entailment knowledge into summarization by introducing an entailment-aware encoder-decoder model for sentence summarization.
Ensure the Correctness of the Summary: Incorporate Entailment Knowledge into Abstractive Sentence Summarization
COLING
Computer Science