arXiv:2605.12518cs.CLcs.AI2026-05

用推理模型主动构建时间线,提升新闻事件梳理的准确与完整。

TimelineReasoner: Advancing Timeline Summarization with Large Reasoning Models

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  • 分两阶段:宏观追踪事件并更新记忆,微观补缺并检索文档。
  • 在开放域数据上显著优于现有方法,覆盖更全、逻辑更连贯。
  • 适合需要精准时间线的新闻分析、历史研究等场景。

在线新闻的爆炸式增长给从非结构化内容中提取结构化时间线带来了挑战。尽管近期研究显示大语言模型(LLMs)可辅助时间线摘要(TLS),但这些方法主要将模型视为被动生成者。大型推理模型(LRMs)的出现为对事件进行主动推理提供了机会,支持迭代证据获取、缺失事件检测和时间一致性验证。为系统性利用LRM的推理能力,我们提出TimelineReasoner框架,将TLS从静态生成转变为活跃的推理驱动过程。不同于以往工作,TimelineReasoner采用两阶段设计:全局认知阶段在宏观层面追踪事件并持续更新全局事件记忆;细节探索阶段识别信息缺口并通过针对性文档检索优化时间线。为支持该框架,TimelineReasoner引入多个专用机制,包括事件爬取器用于获取时间事件描述,时间线更新器用于细化时间线,以及监督器用于检测时间线缺口并指导检索。在开放域时间线摘要数据集上的实验表明,TimelineReasoner在时间线准确性、覆盖率和连贯性方面显著优于现有基于LLM的方法。在封闭域数据集上,其表现与或优于当前最优方法。该工作不仅推进了时间线摘要的边界,也凸显了基于LRM的推理框架在时间线总结中的广泛潜力。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The proliferation of online news poses a challenge to extracting structured timelines from unstructured content. While recent studies have shown that Large Language Models (LLMs) can assist Timeline Summarization (TLS), these approaches primarily treat models as passive generators. The emergence of Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) presents an opportunity to reason over events actively, enabling iterative evidence acquisition, the detection of missing events, and the validation of temporal consistency. To systematically leverage the reasoning capabilities of LRMs, we propose TimelineReasoner, a novel framework that shifts TLS from static generation to an active, reasoning-driven process. Unlike prior work, TimelineReasoner adopts a two-stage framework: Global Cognition, which tracks events at a macroscopic level and continuously updates a global event memory, and Detail Exploration, which identifies informational gaps and refines the timeline via targeted document retrieval. To support this, TimelineReasoner incorporates several specialized mechanisms, including an Event Scraper for retrieving temporal event descriptions, a Timeline Updater for refining the timeline, and a Supervisor for detecting gaps in the timeline and guiding retrieval. Experimental results on open-domain TLS datasets demonstrate that TimelineReasoner significantly outperforms existing LLM-based TLS methods in terms of timeline accuracy, coverage, and coherence. On closed-domain TLS datasets, our method performs on par with or exceeds state-of-the-art approaches. This work not only pushes the boundaries of TLS but also highlights the broader potential of LRM-based reasoning frameworks for timeline summarization.

时间线生成推理模型新闻摘要

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