Contrastive Hierarchical Discourse Graph for Scientific Document
  Summarization
Haopeng Zhang Xiao Liu Jiawei Zhang
The extended structural context has made scientific paper summarization a
challenging task. This paper proposes CHANGES, a contrastive hierarchical graph
neural network for extractive scientific paper summarization. CHANGES
represents a scientific paper with a hierarchical discourse graph and learns
effective sentence representations with dedicated designed hierarchical graph
information aggregation. We also propose a graph contrastive learning module to
learn global theme-aware sentence representations. Extensive experiments on the
PubMed and arXiv benchmark datasets prove the effectiveness of CHANGES and the
importance of capturing hierarchical structure information in modeling
scientific papers.