@inproceedings{wang-etal-2019-self,
    title = "Self-Supervised Learning for Contextualized Extractive Summarization",
    author = "Wang, Hong  and
      Wang, Xin  and
      Xiong, Wenhan  and
      Yu, Mo  and
      Guo, Xiaoxiao  and
      Chang, Shiyu  and
      Wang, William Yang",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 57th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
    month = jul,
    year = "2019",
    address = "Florence, Italy",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1214",
    pages = "2221--2227",
    abstract = "Existing models for extractive summarization are usually trained from scratch with a cross-entropy loss, which does not explicitly capture the global context at the document level. In this paper, we aim to improve this task by introducing three auxiliary pre-training tasks that learn to capture the document-level context in a self-supervised fashion. Experiments on the widely-used CNN/DM dataset validate the effectiveness of the proposed auxiliary tasks. Furthermore, we show that after pre-training, a clean model with simple building blocks is able to outperform previous state-of-the-art that are carefully designed.",
}