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. RadTimeline: Timeline Summarization for Longitudinal Radiological Lung Findings

    Mar 24, 2026Sitong Zhou, Meliha Yetisgen, Mari OstendorfText SummarizationClinical Information Extraction

    University of Washington

  2. Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Medical Text Summarization: A Comparative Study of Lora, Prompt Tuning, and Full Fine-Tuning

    Mar 23, 2026Ulugbek Shernazarov, Rostislav Svitsov, Bin ShiParameter-Efficient Fine-TuningText Summarization

    Telecom SudParis, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France

  3. SciZoom: A Large-scale Benchmark for Hierarchical Scientific Summarization across the LLM Era

    Mar 17, 2026Han Jang, Junhyeok Lee, Kyu Sung ChoiLLM EvaluationScientific Communication

    Seoul National University · Seoul National University Hospital · Seoul National University College of Medicine

  4. BLooP: Zero-Shot Abstractive Summarization using Large Language Models with Bigram Lookahead Promotion

    Mar 12, 2026Varun Iyer, Cornelia CarageaText SummarizationLanguage Model Decoding

    University of Illinois Chicago

  5. Coverage-Controlled Preference Mining from Noisy Claim Verification for Evidence-Grounded Generation

    Mar 11, 2026Weixin Liu, Congning Ni, Qingyuan Song +4Claim VerificationHealthcare

    Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA · Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA · Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA

  6. Using Multimodal and Language-Agnostic Sentence Embeddings for Abstractive Summarization

    Mar 9, 2026Chaimae Chellaf, Salima Mdhaffar, Yannick Estève +1Text Summarization

    LIA - Avignon Université, France · Lundi Matin, France

  7. FreeTxt-Vi: A Benchmarked Vietnamese-English Toolkit for Segmentation, Sentiment, and Summarisation

    Mar 5, 2026Hung Nguyen Huy, Mo El-Haj, Dawn Knight +1Text SummarizationLow-Resource Language Processing

    VinUniversity, Vietnam · Lancaster University, UK · Cardiff University, UK

  8. Efficient Extractive Summarization with MAMBA-Transformer Hybrids for Low-Resource Scenarios

    Mar 1, 2026Nisrine Ait KhayiHybrid Transformer-State Space Model ArchitecturesText Summarization

    Independent Researcher · University of Memphis

  9. MOSAIC: Modular Opinion Summarization using Aspect Identification and Clustering

    Mar 1, 2026Piyush Kumar Singh, Jayesh ChoudhariText SummarizationSummarization Evaluation

    Viator, TripAdvisor / London

  10. Improving Automatic Summarization of Radiology Reports through Mid-Training of Large Language Models

    Feb 28, 2026Mengxian Lyu, Cheng Peng, Ziyi Chen +3Text SummarizationMedical LLMs

    Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA · Department of Engineering Education, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA · Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, Preston A. Wells, Jr. Center for Brain Tumor Therapy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

  11. Iterative Prompt Refinement for Dyslexia-Friendly Text Summarization Using GPT-4o

    Feb 26, 2026Samay Bhojwani, Swarnima Kain, Lisong XuText SummarizationSummarization Evaluation

    University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  12. EyeLayer: Integrating Human Attention Patterns into LLM-Based Code Summarization

    Feb 25, 2026Jiahao Zhang, Yifan Zhang, Kevin Leach +1Code Language ModelsText Summarization

    Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

  13. Can Structural Cues Save LLMs? Evaluating Language Models in Massive Document Streams

    Feb 25, 2026Yukyung Lee, Yebin Lim, Woojun Jung +2LLM EvaluationLong-Context Language Model Evaluation

    Boston University, Boston, USA · Korea University, Seoul, Korea

  14. AgenticSum: An Agentic Inference-Time Framework for Faithful Clinical Text Summarization

    Feb 23, 2026Fahmida Liza Piya, Rahmatollah BeheshtiText SummarizationLLM Hallucination Mitigation

    University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA

  15. CitiLink-Summ: Summarization of Discussion Subjects in European Portuguese Municipal Meeting Minutes

    Feb 18, 2026Miguel Marques, Ana Luísa Fernandes, Ana Filipa Pacheco +10Text SummarizationLow-Resource Language Processing

    University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal · INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal · Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal +1

  16. Multi-Task Instruction Tuning via Data Scheduling for Low-Resource Arabic SpeechLLMs

    Jan 18, 2026Hunzalah Hassan Bhatti, Firoj Alam, Shammur Absar ChowdhurySpoken Language UnderstandingSpeech Processing

    Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar

  17. Gavel: Agent Meets Checklist for Evaluating LLMs on Long-Context Legal Summarization

    Jan 7, 2026Yao Dou, Benjamin Mamut, Wei XuLegal NLPLLM Evaluation

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  18. MAPLE: Medical Aspect-Based Summarization with Phrase-Level Evidence

    Jan 6, 2026Bohao Chu, Hendrik Damm, Tabea M. G. Pakull +5HealthcareText Summarization

    University of Duisburg-Essen · University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund · University Hospital Essen +1

  19. Narrative Consolidation: Formulating a New Task for Unifying Multi-Perspective Accounts

    Dec 19, 2025Roger A. Finger, Eduardo G. Cortes, Sandro J. Rigo +1Text SummarizationTemporal Consistency

    Graduate Program in Applied Computing Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos São Leopoldo, Brazil

  20. CARPAS: Towards Content-Aware Refinement of Provided Aspects for Summarization in Large Language Models

    Oct 8, 2025Yong-En Tian, Yu-Chien Tang, An-Zi Yen +1Text Summarization

    Department of Computer Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

  21. Evaluating the Evaluator: Summarization Metrics and LLM-Judges beyond English

    Mar 21, 2025Jeremy Barnes, Naiara Perez, Alba Bonet-Jover +1Summarization EvaluationAutomated Evaluation

    HiTZ Center, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) · Department of Software and Computing Systems, University of Alicante, Spain · GOI Institute, Basque Summer University (UEU)

  22. OARelatedWork: A Large-Scale Dataset of Related Work Sections with Full-texts from Open Access Sources

    May 3, 2024Martin Docekal, Martin Fajcik, Pavel SmrzText SummarizationEvidence-Grounded Generation

    Brno University of Technology