tuanhqv123/longt5-meeting-summarization
LongT5 — Dialogue Summarization
A LongT5 (tglobal-base) model fine-tuned to summarize short conversations into a sentence or two. Trained on DialogSum + SAMSum — two-person chats and group messenger threads.
- Base model:
google/long-t5-tglobal-base - Task: Abstractive dialogue summarization (English)
- Max input / output: 512 / 96 tokens
- License: Apache-2.0
🔧 Reproducibility: the pipeline lives in `code/` as two runnable notebooks — `data_processing.ipynb` (clean + EDA + investigation) and `train.ipynb` (fine-tune + evaluate) — plus `code/REPORT.md` for the full analysis and decision log.
Quick start
The model was trained with a "summarize: " task prefix — add it at inference too:
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM
repo = "tuanhqv123/longt5-meeting-summarization"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained(repo)
dialogue = """Person1: Can I help you?
Person2: I'd like to buy a new mobile phone please."""
inputs = tok("summarize: " + dialogue, return_tensors="pt", truncation=True, max_length=512)
ids = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=96, num_beams=4, no_repeat_ngram_size=3)
print(tok.decode(ids[0], skip_special_tokens=True))Evaluation
Held-out test set (DialogSum + SAMSum), beam=4, ROUGE with stemming + BERTScore-F1:
ROUGE measures word overlap; BERTScore measures semantic similarity, so its higher value reflects that the summaries are usually correct in meaning even when worded differently.
Per-source breakdown
SAMSum (casual messenger chats) summarizes a bit more cleanly than DialogSum (longer, more structured two-person dialogues).
Training
Data: `knkarthick/dialogsum` + `knkarthick/samsum`, cleaned and merged (29,610 rows after cleaning). DialogSum's #Person1# tags are normalized to Person1 so the two sources share a consistent speaker style. Each dataset's original train/val/test split is kept.
Validation ROUGE-L per epoch
Early stopping (patience 2) picked epoch 6 — validation ROUGE-L peaked there, then didn't improve.
Intended use & limitations
- Intended: abstractive summarization of short English conversations / chat threads.
- Limitations: English-only; trained on casual/everyday dialogue, so it may transfer poorly to technical, legal, or very long transcripts. Like all abstractive summarizers it can hallucinate — verify facts before relying on a summary. Inputs beyond 512 tokens are truncated.
Citation
Built on LongT5:
@article{guo2021longt5,
title={LongT5: Efficient Text-To-Text Transformer for Long Sequences},
author={Guo, Mandy and Ainslie, Joshua and Uthus, David and Ontanon, Santiago and Ni, Jianmo and Sung, Yun-Hsuan and Yang, Yinfei},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.07916},
year={2021}
}