Text Summarization

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Text summarization studies how to condense one or more documents into shorter accounts that preserve important information for a reader or task. Extractive methods select source sentences, while abstractive methods generate new wording; current systems also use large language models, hierarchical processing, retrieval, and structured evidence to handle long or specialized sources. Benchmarks such as CNN/DailyMail, XSum, and Multi-News support comparison, but overlap scores like ROUGE may not capture factual accuracy, coverage, or usefulness. A central challenge is balancing concise, readable summaries with faithful evidence, especially for long documents, multiple viewpoints, and high-stakes domains.

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  1. From Structured Records to Patient Narratives: Preserving Clinical Alignment in LLM-Generated Health Summaries

    Oct 22, 2026Bayram Ayadi, Florian Geissler, Johanna SchmidhuberText SummarizationHealthcare

    University of Passau, Passau, Germany · Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems IKS, Munich, Germany

  2. Multi-level Encoder with Global Topic for Task-oriented Dialogue Summarization

    Oct 21, 2026Zhuoqi He, Peijie Huang, Yuhong Xu +3Text Summarization

    College of Mathematics and Informatics, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

  3. Quality-Controlled Reply and Summary Data for Post-Training Small Language Models in AI Call-Screening Agents

    Oct 18, 2026Jiaqi Gan, Tsang Ng, Ankit Raj +5Small Language ModelsSpoken Dialogue Systems

  4. Abstracts or full text? Evaluating input scope and computational efficiency in biomedical lay summarization

    Oct 15, 2026Egecan Çelik Evgin, İlknur Karadeniz, Olcay Taner YıldızText SummarizationSummarization Evaluation

    Department of Computer Science, Özyeğin University, İstanbul, Türkiye · Department of Computer Engineering, Galatasaray University, İstanbul, Türkiye · Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering, Özyeğin University, İstanbul, Türkiye

  5. Prune the Summary, Not the History: Source-Judged Compaction for Long-Horizon Agents

    Oct 14, 2026Guanghui Min, Chen ChenContext Compaction for LLM AgentsLLM Agent Reliability

    Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia

  6. Evaluating Large Language Models for Multilingual Abstractive Summarization: A Comprehensive Study of English and Bengali

    Oct 13, 2026Khan Mahi Al Atahar, Nazifa Tasneem, Ajwad AbrarText SummarizationMultilingual Language Model Evaluation

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Islamic University of Technology, Gazipur, Bangladesh

  7. A Comparative Study of Evaluation Metrics for Long-Document Financial Narrative Summarization with Transformers

    Oct 7, 2026Nadhem Zmandar, Mo El-Haj, Paul RaysonText SummarizationSummarization Evaluation

    UCREL NLP group, School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, UK

  8. RASPER: Reward-Aligned Summarization of Clinical Notes for EHR Outcome Prediction

    Oct 2, 2026Arya Hadizadeh Moghaddam, Mohsen Nayebi Kerdabadi, Chen Chen +2Medication RecommendationText Summarization

    Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Kansas, USA

  9. Whose Voice Survives the Summary? A Voice-Retention Audit of LLM Employee Listening

    Sep 30, 2026Thilo Tamme, Anton Hantel, Bijan Khosrawi-RadText SummarizationSummarization Evaluation

    Technical University of Munich · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Leuphana University Lüneburg

  10. SinBrief: A Hybrid Framework for Abstractive Text Summarisation of Sinhala Legal Documents

    Sep 26, 2026Minduli Lasandi, Nevidu JayatillekeText SummarizationLegal NLP

    School of Computing, Informatics Institute of Technology, Sri Lanka · Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

  11. Compact Documentation for Coding Agents: A Benchmark, an Optimizer, and Why It Does Not Transfer

    Sep 25, 2026Md Shohel Arman, Igor MolybogSoftware EngineeringAI Coding Agents

    Daffodil International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh · HawAII, University of Hawai‘i at M¯anoa, Honolulu, HI, USA

  12. Highlight-Then-Summarize: Learning to Compress Evidence for Long-Context Understanding

    Sep 25, 2026Zhaoyuan Xia, Qinghongbing Xie, Yung Xiang Hue +7Long-Context Reasoning in Language ModelsLong-Context Modeling

    Peking University · Baidu Inc · Baidu Inc. +1

  13. Can Classical Semantic-Extractive Summarization Be Evaluated in Hindi? A Replication Study

    Sep 24, 2026Showket Ahmad Khan, Mudasir Mohd, Nasrullah Sheikh +4Text SummarizationSummarization Evaluation

    Department of Computer Science, South Campus, University of Kashmir, Anantnag, India · IBM Research, San Jose, CA, USA · Manipal University Jaipur, Dehmi Kalan, Jaipur 303007, Rajasthan, India

  14. Controlled Attribute-Specific Summarization of Interrogative Dialogues

    Sep 23, 2026A Aditya Bhardwaj, Arjit Singh Arora, Md Shad AkhtarText Summarization

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIIT Delhi, New Delhi, 110020, Delhi, India

  15. LexLattice: Multilingual Extractive Summarization via Neural Cellular Automata on Document Hierarchies

    Sep 22, 2026Sujay Uday Rittikar, Sheela RamannaLegal NLPText Summarization

    Applied Computer Science The University of Winnipeg Winnipeg, MB

  16. Preserving What Matters: Semantic Scaffolds Beyond Saturation in Summarization Evaluation

    Sep 18, 2026Nikhil Reddy Pottanigari, Ramin Fahimi, Noah Bolger +2LLM EvaluationText Summarization

    ServiceNow Canada

  17. TIAO: Token Importance-Aware Policy Optimization for Text Summarization

    Sep 15, 2026Qixiu Li, Chenlong Bao, Xiang Zhu +4RL for Language ModelsToken-Level Credit Assignment

    National University of Defense Technology

  18. A Hybrid Hierarchical 1D-CNN-BiLSTM Framework for Extractive Summarization of Biomedical and Clinical Text

    Sep 11, 2026Saad Bin Ather, Muhammad Saif, Ali Hassan Khan +2Text Summarization

    CS Department NUCES-FAST Lahore, Pakistan

  19. Reasoning Beyond Transcription: Audio Language Models on Child Stuttering Speech

    Sep 7, 2026Chibuzor Okocha, Christan Grant, Zoey LiuAudio-Language Model EvaluationSpoken Language Understanding

    University of Florida, USA

  20. When Financial Fine-tuning Fails: A Three-Level Detectability Analysis of Numerical Hallucination in Domain-Adapted Language Models

    Sep 4, 2026Xiaodong Li, Peiwei LiuNumerical Reasoning in Language ModelsHallucination in Language Models

    School of Computer Science, Guangzhou College of Applied Science and Technology, Guangzhou, 511370, China · IT Department, COFCO Corporation, Beijing, 100020, China

  21. Improving Health Literacy through Lay Summarization of Radiological Reports: An Evaluation of BioNER and Retrieval-Augmented Generation

    Sep 2, 2026Egecan Çelik Evgin, İlknur Karadeniz, Olcay Taner YıldızText SummarizationRetrieval-Augmented Generation

    Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering, Özye˘gin University, Türkiye · Department of Computer Engineering, Galatasaray University, Türkiye · Department of Computer Science, Özye˘gin University, Türkiye

  22. LOOMSUM: Weaving Quantitative and Narrative Evidence for Faithful Long Text-Table Summarization

    Aug 31, 2026Meng Zhou, Wenhao You, Wei Yuan +1Factual Consistency EvaluationText Summarization

    University of Toronto · University of Waterloo · Independent Researcher

  23. Improving Argument Saliency Coverage in Small LLMs for Long Legal Opinion Summarization via Sequence-Level Distillation

    Aug 30, 2026Mohamed Elaraby, Ahmed Elhady, Diane LitmanText SummarizationLanguage Model Distillation

    University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA · HiTZ Center, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)

  24. Loss-Based Active Learning for Neural Abstractive Summarization

    Aug 26, 2026Michail Ioannou, Tatiana Passali, George Michalopoulos +1Active LearningText Summarization

    School of Informatics Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece

  25. Speech-to-SOAP: End-to-End Summarization of Medical Dialogues: KIT@BeTraC 2026

    Aug 25, 2026Enes Yavuz Ugan, Fabian Retkowski, Yuka Ko +4Medical Report GenerationText Summarization

    ISL, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology · AI4LT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology · InterACT, Carnegie Mellon University

  26. From Triage to Discharge: A Survey of NLP Tasks, Methods, and Open Challenges in the Emergency Department

    Aug 23, 2026Dipankar Srirag, Aditya Joshi, Salil Kanhere +1Clinical NLPClinical Triage

    University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

  27. Extractive Summarization for Arabic Documents Using SAraBERT with a Semantic Siamese Similarity Evaluation Metric

    Aug 21, 2026Sami Shames El Deen, Mariette AwadArabic Language ModelsText Summarization

    American University of Beirut

  28. PSK at WMT 2026 MIST: Task-Specialized QLoRA Adapters for Multilingual Summarization and Question Answering

    Aug 21, 2026Srikar Kashyap PulipakaText SummarizationMultilingual QA

    Independent Researcher

  29. Automated Summarization of Financial News Using Large Language Models and Retrieval-Augmented Generation: An Early Empirical Study (Fall 2023)

    Aug 20, 2026Pranav ChandaliyaText SummarizationRetrieval-Augmented Generation

    Department of Data Science George Washington University Washington, D.C., USA

  30. Retrieved-Span Training for Efficient Query-Focused Meeting Summarization on QMSum

    Aug 18, 2026Edward Xi YangText SummarizationSummarization Evaluation

    Ertas AI · Ertas AI Melbourne, Australia