Joris Baan

MSc AI at the University of Amsterdam
2018-2019
Host Company: DPG Media
Topic: Explaining Summarization
Co-supervisors: Marlies van der Wees, Maartje ter Hoeve, Maarten de Rijke

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About

Joris researched explainability in abstractive text summarization, particularly investigating whether transformer attention heads provide transparency in the summarization process. His work focused on understanding and explaining multi-head attention mechanisms in neural models for news summarization.

Publications

Do Transformer Attention Heads Provide Transparency in Abstractive Summarization?
Joris Baan and Maartje ter Hoeve and Marlies van der Wees and Anne Schuth and Maarten de Rijke. In Proceedings of FACTS-IR'19, 2019.
32 citations

Understanding Multi-Head Attention in Abstractive Summarization
Joris Baan and Maartje ter Hoeve and Marlies van der Wees and Anne Schuth and Maarten de Rijke. 2019.
29 citations