nusnlp / reacts

The official code of the "Just What You Desire: Constrained Timeline Summarization with Self-Reflection for Enhanced Relevance" paper

CREST and REACTS

This repository provides the data and code to perform constrained timeline summarization, as reported in this paper:

Just What You Desire: Constrained Timeline Summarization with Self-Reflection for Enhanced Relevance
Muhammad Reza Qorib, Qisheng Hu and Hwee Tou Ng.
2025. The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (to appear) [PDF].

Please cite our paper if you use its source code or data.

Dataset

We provide the proposed CREST dataset under the folder data. The data is derived from the ENTITIES dataset. We do not own the copyright of the articles and the timeline summaries. Please contact the respective data owners for usage other than evaluating models on the constrained timeline summarization task.

Code

We provide the code for our method, REACTS, under the folder code.

Security Notice

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License

This repository is licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 3 (see License).