A Survey on Dialogue Summarization: Recent Advances and New Frontiers
Xiachong Feng, Xiaocheng Feng, Bing Qin

TL;DR
This survey comprehensively reviews recent advances in dialogue summarization across various domains, datasets, and future directions, highlighting the progress and challenges in this rapidly evolving field.
Contribution
It provides the first thorough overview of dialogue summarization, organizing existing works by domain, summarizing datasets, and discussing future research directions.
Findings
Organized dialogue summarization research by domain and characteristics.
Compiled and analyzed publicly available datasets and leaderboards.
Identified future challenges including faithfulness, multi-modal, multi-domain, and multi-lingual summarization.
Abstract
Dialogue summarization aims to condense the original dialogue into a shorter version covering salient information, which is a crucial way to reduce dialogue data overload. Recently, the promising achievements in both dialogue systems and natural language generation techniques drastically lead this task to a new landscape, which results in significant research attentions. However, there still remains a lack of a comprehensive survey for this task. To this end, we take the first step and present a thorough review of this research field carefully and widely. In detail, we systematically organize the current works according to the characteristics of each domain, covering meeting, chat, email thread, customer service and medical dialogue. Additionally, we provide an overview of publicly available research datasets as well as organize two leaderboards under unified metrics. Furthermore, we…
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Taxonomy
TopicsTopic Modeling · Speech and dialogue systems · Natural Language Processing Techniques
Methodstravel james
