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Generating Query-Focused Summarization Datasets from Query-Free Summarization Datasets

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This paper proposes an evidence-based model to automatically generate query keywords from query-free datasets for Query-Focused Summarization (QFS). Experiments show that summaries generated using evidence-based queries achieve competitive ROUGE scores compared to those from original queries.

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Generating Query-Focused Summarization Datasets from Query-Free Summarization Datasets
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[Submitted on 6 May 2026]

Title:Generating Query-Focused Summarization Datasets from Query-Free Summarization Datasets

Authors:Yllias Chali, Deen Abdullah

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Abstract:Large-scale datasets are widely used to perform summarization tasks, but they may not include queries alongside documents and summaries. In the search for suitable datasets for Query-Focused Summarization (QFS), we identify two research questions: Is it possible to automatically generate evidence-based query keywords from query-free datasets? Does evidence-based query generation support the QFS task? This paper proposes an evidence-based model to generate queries from query-free datasets. To evaluate our model intrinsically, we compare the similarity between the original queries and the system-generated queries of two QFS datasets. We also perform summarization tasks using different pre-trained models, as well as a state-of-the-art (SOTA) QFS model, to measure the extrinsic performance of our query generation approach. Experimental results indicate that summaries generated using evidence-based queries achieve competitive ROUGE scores compared to those generated from the original queries.

Comments: 7 pages, 1 figure

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Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

Cite as: arXiv:2605.05392 [cs.CL]

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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.05392

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From: Yllias Chali [view email] [v1] Wed, 6 May 2026 19:25:34 UTC (58 KB)

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  • Proposes an evidence-driven method to extract queries from query-free summarization datasets.
  • Intrinsic evaluation compares generated queries with original queries for similarity.
  • Extrinsic evaluation uses multiple pre-trained models and a SOTA QFS model, demonstrating effectiveness.
  • Summaries from evidence queries achieve comparable ROUGE scores to original queries.

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