{ "lesson": "12-text-summarization", "title": "Text Summarization", "questions": [ { "stage": "pre", "question": "What is the key behavioral difference between extractive and abstractive summarization?", "options": [ "Extractive uses TF-IDF; abstractive uses Word2Vec", "Extractive returns sentences verbatim from the source; abstractive generates new text and can hallucinate", "Extractive is multilingual only", "Extractive is slower than abstractive" ], "correct": 1, "explanation": "Extractive lifts sentences verbatim; abstractive rewrites and risks hallucination." }, { "stage": "pre", "question": "What does ROUGE measure?", "options": [ "Embedding similarity", "N-gram and longest-common-subsequence overlap between system and reference summaries", "Reading time", "Token-level perplexity" ], "correct": 1, "explanation": "ROUGE-1/2/L measure unigram, bigram, and LCS overlap with references." }, { "stage": "check", "question": "How does TextRank score sentences in extractive summarization?", "options": [ "By raw word count", "By comparing to a reference summary", "By running a PageRank-style iteration over a graph where edges are sentence-similarity weights", "By embedding cosine to the question" ], "correct": 2, "explanation": "TextRank uses PageRank over a sentence-similarity graph; highly connected sentences score highest." }, { "stage": "check", "question": "Why enable stemming when computing ROUGE?", "options": [ "Without stemming, 'running' and 'run' count as different tokens and ROUGE undercounts true overlap", "To speed up ROUGE", "Stemming normalizes case", "Stemming is required by the rouge-score package" ], "correct": 0, "explanation": "Stemming merges morphological variants so ROUGE credits semantically equivalent forms." }, { "stage": "check", "question": "Which 2026 metric is purpose-built to detect summary hallucinations via NLI entailment?", "options": [ "BLEU", "ROUGE-L", "Faithfulness checks (e.g. FactCC or RAGAS faithfulness) using NLI between source and summary claims", "chrF" ], "correct": 2, "explanation": "NLI-based faithfulness scoring flags claims in the summary not entailed by the source." }, { "stage": "post", "question": "Why is extractive summarization preferred for compliance-adjacent content?", "options": [ "Outputs are lifted verbatim from the source, eliminating the abstractive hallucination class", "It is faster", "Extractive supports longer outputs", "ROUGE scores are higher" ], "correct": 0, "explanation": "Verbatim extraction cannot invent content, which matters where factuality is regulated." }, { "stage": "post", "question": "Which of these is an abstractive hallucination type to monitor for?", "options": [ "Punctuation drift", "Stopword removal", "Long sentences", "Entity swap (e.g. 'John Smith' rendered as 'John Brown'), number drift, polarity flip, or fact invention" ], "correct": 3, "explanation": "Entity swaps, numeric drift, polarity flips, and invented facts are the canonical abstractive failure modes." }, { "stage": "post", "question": "When would you reach for a Pegasus checkpoint over BART-large-CNN?", "options": [ "When evaluating BLEU", "When the input is short", "When you need extractive output", "For domains like scientific abstracts where Pegasus's gap-sentence pretraining objective is a closer fit" ], "correct": 3, "explanation": "Pegasus's gap-sentence objective excels at long-form domain summarization (e.g. pubmed)." } ] }