LEARNING TO FUSE SENTENCES WITH TRANSFORMERS FOR SUMMARIZATION

Systems and methods for sentence fusion are described. Embodiments receive coreference information for a first sentence and a second sentence, wherein the coreference information identifies entities associated with both a term of the first sentence and a term of the second sentence, apply an entity constraint to an attention head of a sentence fusion network, wherein the entity constraint limits attention weights of the attention head to terms that correspond to a same entity of the coreference information, and predict a fused sentence using the sentence fusion network based on the entity constraint, wherein the fused sentence combines information from the first sentence and the second sentence.