Sequence-to-Sequence Resources for Catalan
This work addresses the lack of language technology resources for Catalan, an under-resourced language, by providing open-licensed datasets and baselines for summarization and machine translation.
The authors created new sequence-to-sequence resources for Catalan, including abstractive summarization datasets and a parallel Catalan-English corpus with test sets, and established baselines using a Catalan BART model.
In this work, we introduce sequence-to-sequence language resources for Catalan, a moderately under-resourced language, towards two tasks, namely: Summarization and Machine Translation (MT). We present two new abstractive summarization datasets in the domain of newswire. We also introduce a parallel Catalan-English corpus, paired with three different brand new test sets. Finally, we evaluate the data presented with competing state of the art models, and we develop baselines for these tasks using a newly created Catalan BART. We release the resulting resources of this work under open license to encourage the development of language technology in Catalan.