SentMask: A Sentence-Aware Mask Attention-Guided Two-Stage Text Summarization Component

Figure 1

Sample summary of an article from the MS2 dataset corpus. Existing methods generate the summary based on the sentences selected by the extractor. While the paper reduces the attention weights of nonsalient sentences by using a mask attention matrix with a sentence-aware masked attention mechanism, the sentence mask module in our model is a transformation of a sample input into a mask matrix.