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Mohamed Elaraby

5 accepted papers

2024

Persuasiveness of Generated Free-Text Rationales in Subjective Decisions: A Case Study on Pairwise Argument Ranking

EMNLP 2024finding

Generating free-text rationales is among the emergent capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). These rationales have been found to enhance LLM performance across various NLP tasks. Recently, there has been growing interest in using these rationales to provide insights for various important down…

2024

ReflectSumm: A Benchmark for Course Reflection Summarization

COLING 2024main

This paper introduces ReflectSumm, a novel summarization dataset specifically designed for summarizing students’ reflective writing. The goal of ReflectSumm is to facilitate developing and evaluating novel summarization techniques tailored to real-world scenarios with little training data, with pote…

2023

Towards Argument-Aware Abstractive Summarization of Long Legal Opinions with Summary Reranking

ACL 2023findings

We propose a simple approach for the abstractive summarization of long legal opinions that takes into account the argument structure of the document. Legal opinions often contain complex and nuanced argumentation, making it challenging to generate a concise summary that accurately captures the main…

2022

ArgLegalSumm: Improving Abstractive Summarization of Legal Documents with Argument Mining

COLING 2022main

A challenging task when generating summaries of legal documents is the ability to address their argumentative nature. We introduce a simple technique to capture the argumentative structure of legal documents by integrating argument role labeling into the summarization process. Experiments with pretr…

2021

Exploring Multitask Learning for Low-Resource Abstractive Summarization

EMNLP 2021finding

This paper explores the effect of using multitask learning for abstractive summarization in the context of small training corpora. In particular, we incorporate four different tasks (extractive summarization, language modeling, concept detection, and paraphrase detection) both individually and in co…