  Summarization based on text extraction is inherently limited, but
generation-style abstractive methods have proven challenging to build. In this
work, we propose a fully data-driven approach to abstractive sentence
summarization. Our method utilizes a local attention-based model that generates
each word of the summary conditioned on the input sentence. While the model is
structurally simple, it can easily be trained end-to-end and scales to a large
amount of training data. The model shows significant performance gains on the
DUC-2004 shared task compared with several strong baselines.
