README.md

Data processing for NeuSum

This repo contains the code which can generate the training data (CNN / Daily Mail) needed by NeuSum.

1. Preprocess CNN/DM dataset using abisee's scripts: https://github.com/abisee/cnn-dailymail

2. Convert its output to the format shown in the sample_data folder. The format of files:

   1. File train.txt.src is the input document. Each line contains several tokenized sentences delimited by ##SENT## of a document.
   2. File train.txt.tgt is the summary of document. Each line contains several tokenized summaries delimited by ##SENT## of the corresponding document.

3. Use find_oracle.py to search the best sentences to be extracted. The arguments of the main functions are: document_file, summary_file and output_path.

4. Next, build the ROUGE score gain file using get_mmr_regression_gain.py. The usage is shown in the code entry.

Note

The algorithm is a brute-force search, which can be slow in some cases. Therefore, running it in parallel is recommended (and it is what I did in my experiments).

Recently, I modify the find_oracle.py a little using multiprocessing so that it can be easier to run it in parallel. Please check out find_oracle_para.py.