From Key Points to Key Point Hierarchy: Structured and Expressive Opinion Summarization

Arie Cattan, Lilach Eden, Yoav Kantor, Roy Bar-Haim

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Abstract

Key Point Analysis (KPA) has been recently proposed for deriving fine-grained insights from collections of textual comments. KPA extracts the main points in the data as a list of concise sentences or phrases, termed key points, and quantifies their prevalence. While key points are more expressive than word clouds and key phrases, making sense of a long, flat list of key points, which often express related ideas in varying levels of granularity, may still be challenging. To address this limitation of KPA, we introduce the task of organizing a given set of key points into a hierarchy, according to their specificity. Such hierarchies may be viewed as a novel type of Textual Entailment Graph. We develop THINKP, a high quality benchmark dataset of key point hierarchies for business and product reviews, obtained by consolidating multiple annotations. We compare different methods for predicting pairwise relations between key points, and for inferring a hierarchy from these pairwise predictions. In particular, for the task of computing pairwise key point relations, we achieve significant gains over existing strong baselines by applying directional distributional similarity methods to a novel distributional representation of key points, and further boost performance via weak supervision. https://github.com/IBM/kpa-hierarchy.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLong Papers
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages912-928
Number of pages17
ISBN (Electronic)9781959429722
StatePublished - 2023
Event61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2023 - Toronto, Canada
Duration: 9 Jul 202314 Jul 2023

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Volume1
ISSN (Print)0736-587X

Conference

Conference61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2023
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityToronto
Period9/07/2314/07/23

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Association for Computational Linguistics.

Funding

The first author is partially supported by the PBC fellowship for outstanding PhD candidates in data science.

FundersFunder number
Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education of Israel

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