Paper Citation Record · LEDGER

Markov-Enhanced Clustering for Long Document Summarization: Tackling the 'Lost in the Middle' Challenge with Large Language Models

As of 9 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 28 of 28 outbound references and 1 inbound Pith citation observation for arXiv:2506.18036.

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This paper cites Expert Systems with Applications165, 113679 (2020).

Markov-Enhanced Clustering for Long Document Summarization: Tackling the 'Lost in the Middle' Challenge with Large Language Models Expert Systems with Applications165, 113679 (2020)

Reference 1

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Markov-Enhanced Clustering for Long Document Summarization: Tackling the 'Lost in the Middle' Challenge with Large Language Models Unresolved cited work

Reference 2

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Observation bdf7c4c1-dedc-46bc-9102-92c61e6a3388 · outbound

This paper cites In: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2022).

Markov-Enhanced Clustering for Long Document Summarization: Tackling the 'Lost in the Middle' Challenge with Large Language Models In: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2022)

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This paper cites In: 2020 Fourth Int.

Markov-Enhanced Clustering for Long Document Summarization: Tackling the 'Lost in the Middle' Challenge with Large Language Models In: 2020 Fourth Int

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This paper cites ACM Computing Surveys55, 1–35 (2022).

Markov-Enhanced Clustering for Long Document Summarization: Tackling the 'Lost in the Middle' Challenge with Large Language Models ACM Computing Surveys55, 1–35 (2022)

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This paper cites In: Proceedings of NAACL- HLT 2019, pp.

Markov-Enhanced Clustering for Long Document Summarization: Tackling the 'Lost in the Middle' Challenge with Large Language Models In: Proceedings of NAACL- HLT 2019, pp

Reference 6

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This paper cites Leveraging BERT for Extractive Text Summarization on Lectures.

Markov-Enhanced Clustering for Long Document Summarization: Tackling the 'Lost in the Middle' Challenge with Large Language Models Leveraging BERT for Extractive Text Summarization on Lectures

Reference 7

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This paper cites In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, vol.

Markov-Enhanced Clustering for Long Document Summarization: Tackling the 'Lost in the Middle' Challenge with Large Language Models In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, vol

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This paper cites Transactions of the ACL 12, 39–57 (2024).https://doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00632.

Markov-Enhanced Clustering for Long Document Summarization: Tackling the 'Lost in the Middle' Challenge with Large Language Models Transactions of the ACL 12, 39–57 (2024).https://doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00632

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This paper cites In: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, pp.

Markov-Enhanced Clustering for Long Document Summarization: Tackling the 'Lost in the Middle' Challenge with Large Language Models In: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, pp

Reference 10

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This paper cites Transactions of the ACL 12, 157–173 (2024).https://doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00638.

Markov-Enhanced Clustering for Long Document Summarization: Tackling the 'Lost in the Middle' Challenge with Large Language Models Transactions of the ACL 12, 157–173 (2024).https://doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00638

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This paper cites BookSum: A Collection of Datasets for Long-form Narrative Summarization.

Markov-Enhanced Clustering for Long Document Summarization: Tackling the 'Lost in the Middle' Challenge with Large Language Models BookSum: A Collection of Datasets for Long-form Narrative Summarization

Reference 12

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This paper cites In: Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pp.

Markov-Enhanced Clustering for Long Document Summarization: Tackling the 'Lost in the Middle' Challenge with Large Language Models In: Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pp

Reference 13

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Markov-Enhanced Clustering for Long Document Summarization: Tackling the 'Lost in the Middle' Challenge with Large Language Models Unresolved cited work

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Observation e6216b84-54eb-4eca-b0c8-5bf71ef13d15 · outbound

This paper cites The Chronicles of RAG: The Retriever, the Chunk and the Generator.

Markov-Enhanced Clustering for Long Document Summarization: Tackling the 'Lost in the Middle' Challenge with Large Language Models The Chronicles of RAG: The Retriever, the Chunk and the Generator

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This paper cites IEEE Access11, 36120–36146 (2023).https: //doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3266377.

Markov-Enhanced Clustering for Long Document Summarization: Tackling the 'Lost in the Middle' Challenge with Large Language Models IEEE Access11, 36120–36146 (2023).https: //doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3266377

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Markov-Enhanced Clustering for Long Document Summarization: Tackling the 'Lost in the Middle' Challenge with Large Language Models Nomic Embed: Training a Reproducible Long Context Text Embedder

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Markov-Enhanced Clustering for Long Document Summarization: Tackling the 'Lost in the Middle' Challenge with Large Language Models In: Proc

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Markov-Enhanced Clustering for Long Document Summarization: Tackling the 'Lost in the Middle' Challenge with Large Language Models https://doi.org/10.1007/s00357-014-9161-z

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Markov-Enhanced Clustering for Long Document Summarization: Tackling the 'Lost in the Middle' Challenge with Large Language Models Available at: https://openai.com/index/ gpt-4o-mini-advancing-cost-efficient-intelligence/ (2024)

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This paper cites In: Algo- rithms and Computation, LNCS vol.

Markov-Enhanced Clustering for Long Document Summarization: Tackling the 'Lost in the Middle' Challenge with Large Language Models In: Algo- rithms and Computation, LNCS vol

Reference 21

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Markov-Enhanced Clustering for Long Document Summarization: Tackling the 'Lost in the Middle' Challenge with Large Language Models SIGACT News 28(2), 40–52 (1997).https://doi.org/10.1145/261342.571216

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This paper cites In: Text Summarization Branches Out, pp.

Markov-Enhanced Clustering for Long Document Summarization: Tackling the 'Lost in the Middle' Challenge with Large Language Models In: Text Summarization Branches Out, pp

Reference 24

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Markov-Enhanced Clustering for Long Document Summarization: Tackling the 'Lost in the Middle' Challenge with Large Language Models BERTScore: Evaluating Text Generation with BERT

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Markov-Enhanced Clustering for Long Document Summarization: Tackling the 'Lost in the Middle' Challenge with Large Language Models In: Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pp

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This paper cites In: Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Com- putational Linguistics, pp.

Markov-Enhanced Clustering for Long Document Summarization: Tackling the 'Lost in the Middle' Challenge with Large Language Models In: Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Com- putational Linguistics, pp

Reference 27

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Pith citing papers

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Adversarial Stress Testing of Role-Playing Language Agents using Multi-Agent Evaluation cites this paper.

Adversarial Stress Testing of Role-Playing Language Agents using Multi-Agent Evaluation Markov-Enhanced Clustering for Long Document Summarization: Tackling the 'Lost in the Middle' Challenge with Large Language Models

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