Research Article

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

Table 4

The human evaluation results. The score is calculated on an average of the scores for 300 news articles from the MS2 and AESLC datasets that were supplied by 5 volunteers. The score of each volunteer, which goes from 1 to 5, is the assessment of every news article.

ModelsMS2 datasetAESLC dataset
INFORFAITHFLUINFORFAITHFLU

Semisupervised
TextRank3.5843.56663.57262.58932.5722.582
GenCompareSum3.62933.63063.26872.64932.65062.646
TextRank + Seq2Seq3.62663.63933.6362.64062.6442.6526
SentMask3.83263.83933.84332.81062.82332.8273

Supervised
AESLC3.6823.68533.68332.70332.70662.7046
Transformer3.8163.8623.83662.85332.81662.8206
Pointer-gen3.81463.833.8222.80662.8622.8586
BART3.86933.88333.85332.882.88732.8746
SentMask3.93333.93733.94062.94662.9542.9493

The best values in the metric are in bold. INFOR: informativeness; FAITH: faithfulness; FLU: fluency.