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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Generating Wikipedia by Summarizing Long Sequences · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1801.10198/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1801.10198/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>Generating Wikipedia by Summarizing Long Sequences — mentioned by nl</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22177639</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1801.10198:22177639</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2020 05:09:41 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s active work on this (although in two separate strands of research). The first is multi-document summarization. Back in 2018 Google published Generating Wikipedia by Summarizing Long Sequences[1] which did a great job of combining multiple pages into a single Wikipedia-like document. Models have strengthened a lot since then so it should be possible to do better, but I haven&amp;#x27;t seen any work. There&amp;#x27;s also a bunch of work on summarization of a single document into a few sentences. The second piece of research work is Question Answering. There are multiple directions for that, but looking…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1801.10198/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CL</category></item><item><title>Generating Wikipedia by Summarizing Long Sequences — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16290593</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:1801.10198:16290593</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2018 14:12:57 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Google Brain: Generating Wikipedia by Summarizing Long Sequences&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;4 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1801.10198/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CL</category></item></channel></rss>
