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标题：Entity-level Factual Consistency of Abstractive Text Summarization
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作者：Feng Nan ; Ramesh Nallapati ; Zhiguo Wang 等
期刊名称：Conference on European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)
出版年度：2021
卷号：2021
页码：2727-2733
DOI：10.18653/v1/2021.eacl-main.235
语种：English
出版社：ACL Anthology
摘要：A key challenge for abstractive summarization is ensuring factual consistency of the generated summary with respect to the original document. For example, state-of-the-art models trained on existing datasets exhibit entity hallucination, generating names of entities that are not present in the source document. We propose a set of new metrics to quantify the entity-level factual consistency of generated summaries and we show that the entity hallucination problem can be alleviated by simply filtering the training data. In addition, we propose a summary-worthy entity classification task to the training process as well as a joint entity and summary generation approach, which yield further improvements in entity level metrics.