* Themes ** New Dataset / Task 1. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1212.pdf {BIGPATENT}: A Large-Scale Dataset for Abstractive and Coherent Summarization 2. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1204.pdf {T}alk{S}umm: A Dataset and Scalable Annotation Method for Scientific Paper Summarization Based on Conference Talks 3. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1102.pdf Multi-News: A Large-Scale Multi-Document Summarization Dataset and Abstractive Hierarchical Model 4. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1386.pdf Summary Cloze: A New Task for Content Selection in Topic-Focused Summarization 5. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N19-1260.pdf Abstractive Summarization of {R}eddit Posts with Multi-level Memory Networks 6. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N19-1070.pdf Keyphrase Generation: A Text Summarization Struggle 7. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1215.pdf On the Summarization of Consumer Health Questions 8. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1225.pdf Answering while Summarizing: Multi-task Learning for Multi-hop {QA} with Evidence Extraction ** Analysis 1. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1051.pdf Neural Text Summarization: A Critical Evaluation 2. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1327.pdf Earlier Isn{'}t Always Better: Sub-aspect Analysis on Corpus and System Biases in Summarization 3. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1100.pdf Searching for Effective Neural Extractive Summarization: What Works and What{'}s Next 4. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1502.pdf Studying Summarization Evaluation Metrics in the Appropriate Scoring Range 5. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1213.pdf Ranking Generated Summaries by Correctness: An Interesting but Challenging Application for Natural Language Inference 6. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N19-1394.pdf Recommendations for Datasets for Source Code Summarization ** Evaluation 1. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1116.pdf The Feasibility of Embedding Based Automatic Evaluation for Single Document Summarization 2. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N19-1395.pdf Question Answering as an Automatic Evaluation Metric for News Article Summarization 3. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1330.pdf {H}igh{RES}: Highlight-based Reference-less Evaluation of Summarization ** Theory 1. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1101.pdf A Simple Theoretical Model of Importance for Summarization ** Technique *** Improve RL 1. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1307.pdf Better Rewards Yield Better Summaries: Learning to Summarise Without References 2. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1320.pdf Answers Unite! Unsupervised Metrics for Reinforced Summarization Models 3. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1623.pdf Deep Reinforcement Learning with Distributional Semantic Rewards for Abstractive Summarization 4. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N19-1264.pdf Guiding Extractive Summarization with Question-Answering Rewards *** Transformer based methods 1. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1499.pdf {HIBERT}: Document Level Pre-training of Hierarchical Bidirectional Transformers for Document Summarization 2. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1387.pdf Text Summarization with Pretrained Encoders 3. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1500.pdf Hierarchical Transformers for Multi-Document Summarization *** Constrained summarization 1. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1388.pdf How to Write Summaries with Patterns? Learning towards Abstractive Summarization through Prototype Editing 2. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1207.pdf {B}i{SET}: Bi-directional Selective Encoding with Template for Abstractive Summarization 3. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1311.pdf Subtopic-driven Multi-Document Summarization 4. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1504.pdf Generating Summaries with Topic Templates and Structured Convolutional Decoders 5. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1323.pdf An Entity-Driven Framework for Abstractive Summarization 6. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N19-1173.pdf Single Document Summarization as Tree Induction 7. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1297.pdf Attribute-aware Sequence Network for Review Summarization *** unsupervised methods 2. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1628.pdf Sentence Centrality Revisited for Unsupervised Summarization 3. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1389.pdf {B}ottle{S}um: Unsupervised and Self-supervised Sentence Summarization using the Information Bottleneck Principle 4. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1503.pdf Simple Unsupervised Summarization by Contextual Matching 5. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1206.pdf Unsupervised Neural Single-Document Summarization of Reviews via Learning Latent Discourse Structure and its Ranking *** Improve encoder-decoder and attention 1. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1117.pdf Attention Optimization for Abstractive Document Summarization 2. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1301.pdf Contrastive Attention Mechanism for Abstractive Sentence Summarization 3. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1205.pdf Improving Abstractive Document Summarization with Salient Information Modeling 4. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1501.pdf Abstractive Text Summarization Based on Deep Learning and Semantic Content Generalization *** Improve PGN 1. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1390.pdf Improving Latent Alignment in Text Summarization by Generalizing the Pointer Generator 2. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1304.pdf Concept Pointer Network for Abstractive Summarization *** cross/multi-lingual 1. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1302.pdf {NCLS}: Neural Cross-Lingual Summarization 2. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N19-1204.pdf A Robust Abstractive System for Cross-Lingual Summarization 3. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1616.pdf Abstract Text Summarization: A Low Resource Challenge 4. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1305.pdf Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Abstractive Sentence Summarization through Teaching Generation and Attention *** Multi-modal 1. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1659.pdf Multimodal Abstractive Summarization for How2 Videos 2. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1210.pdf Keep Meeting Summaries on Topic: Abstractive Multi-Modal Meeting Summarization *** Uncategorized 1. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1298.pdf Extractive Summarization of Long Documents by Combining Global and Local Context 2. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1300.pdf Reading Like {HER}: Human Reading Inspired Extractive Summarization 3. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1620.pdf Countering the Effects of Lead Bias in News Summarization via Multi-Stage Training and Auxiliary Losses 4. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1098.pdf Improving the Similarity Measure of Determinantal Point Processes for Extractive Multi-Document Summarization 5. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1099.pdf Global Optimization under Length Constraint for Neural Text Summarization 6. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1209.pdf Scoring Sentence Singletons and Pairs for Abstractive Summarization 7. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1214.pdf Self-Supervised Learning for Contextualized Extractive Summarization 8. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1630.pdf Inducing Document Structure for Aspect-based Summarization