Analyzing the Impact of Sequential Context Learning on the Transformer Based Korean Text Summarization Model

Subin Kim, Yongjun Kim, Junseong Bang

http://doi.org/10.5626/JOK.2021.48.10.1097

Text summarization reduces the sequence length while maintaining the meaning of the entire article body, solving the problem of overloading information and helping readers consume information quickly. To this end, research on a Transformer-based English text summarization model has been actively conducted. Recently, an abstract text summary model reflecting the characteristics of English with a fixed word order by adding a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN)-based encoder was proposed. In this paper, we study the effect of sequential context learning on the text abstract summary model by using an RNN-based encoder for Korean, which has more free word order than English. Transformer-based model and a model that added RNN-based encoder to existing Transformer model are trained to compare the performance of headline generation and article body summary for the Korean articles collected directly. Experiments show that the model performs better when the RNN-based encoder is added, and that sequential contextual information learning is required for Korean abstractive text summarization.