  Sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) neural models have been actively investigated
for abstractive summarization. Nevertheless, existing neural abstractive
systems frequently generate factually incorrect summaries and are vulnerable to
adversarial information, suggesting a crucial lack of semantic understanding.
In this paper, we propose a novel semantic-aware neural abstractive
summarization model that learns to generate high quality summaries through
semantic interpretation over salient content. A novel evaluation scheme with
adversarial samples is introduced to measure how well a model identifies
off-topic information, where our model yields significantly better performance
than the popular pointer-generator summarizer. Human evaluation also confirms
that our system summaries are uniformly more informative and faithful as well
as less redundant than the seq2seq model.
