12 research outputs found
Automatic Detection of Vague Words and Sentences in Privacy Policies
Website privacy policies represent the single most important source of
information for users to gauge how their personal data are collected, used and
shared by companies. However, privacy policies are often vague and people
struggle to understand the content. Their opaqueness poses a significant
challenge to both users and policy regulators. In this paper, we seek to
identify vague content in privacy policies. We construct the first corpus of
human-annotated vague words and sentences and present empirical studies on
automatic vagueness detection. In particular, we investigate context-aware and
context-agnostic models for predicting vague words, and explore
auxiliary-classifier generative adversarial networks for characterizing
sentence vagueness. Our experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of
proposed approaches. Finally, we provide suggestions for resolving vagueness
and improving the usability of privacy policies.Comment: 10 page
Abstract Meaning Representation for Multi-Document Summarization
Generating an abstract from a collection of documents is a desirable
capability for many real-world applications. However, abstractive approaches to
multi-document summarization have not been thoroughly investigated. This paper
studies the feasibility of using Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR), a
semantic representation of natural language grounded in linguistic theory, as a
form of content representation. Our approach condenses source documents to a
set of summary graphs following the AMR formalism. The summary graphs are then
transformed to a set of summary sentences in a surface realization step. The
framework is fully data-driven and flexible. Each component can be optimized
independently using small-scale, in-domain training data. We perform
experiments on benchmark summarization datasets and report promising results.
We also describe opportunities and challenges for advancing this line of
research.Comment: 13 page
Adapting the Neural Encoder-Decoder Framework from Single to Multi-Document Summarization
Generating a text abstract from a set of documents remains a challenging
task. The neural encoder-decoder framework has recently been exploited to
summarize single documents, but its success can in part be attributed to the
availability of large parallel data automatically acquired from the Web. In
contrast, parallel data for multi-document summarization are scarce and costly
to obtain. There is a pressing need to adapt an encoder-decoder model trained
on single-document summarization data to work with multiple-document input. In
this paper, we present an initial investigation into a novel adaptation method.
It exploits the maximal marginal relevance method to select representative
sentences from multi-document input, and leverages an abstractive
encoder-decoder model to fuse disparate sentences to an abstractive summary.
The adaptation method is robust and itself requires no training data. Our
system compares favorably to state-of-the-art extractive and abstractive
approaches judged by automatic metrics and human assessors.Comment: 11 page
Joint Parsing and Generation for Abstractive Summarization
Sentences produced by abstractive summarization systems can be ungrammatical
and fail to preserve the original meanings, despite being locally fluent. In
this paper we propose to remedy this problem by jointly generating a sentence
and its syntactic dependency parse while performing abstraction. If generating
a word can introduce an erroneous relation to the summary, the behavior must be
discouraged. The proposed method thus holds promise for producing grammatical
sentences and encouraging the summary to stay true-to-original. Our
contributions of this work are twofold. First, we present a novel neural
architecture for abstractive summarization that combines a sequential decoder
with a tree-based decoder in a synchronized manner to generate a summary
sentence and its syntactic parse. Secondly, we describe a novel human
evaluation protocol to assess if, and to what extent, a summary remains true to
its original meanings. We evaluate our method on a number of summarization
datasets and demonstrate competitive results against strong baselines.Comment: AAAI 2020 (Main Technical Track