WikiMulti: a Corpus for Cross-Lingual Summarization
This work provides a resource for researchers in cross-lingual summarization, but it is incremental as it focuses on dataset creation and baseline evaluation.
The authors introduced WikiMulti, a new dataset for cross-lingual summarization based on Wikipedia articles in 15 languages, and evaluated existing methods as baselines for further studies.
Cross-lingual summarization (CLS) is the task to produce a summary in one particular language for a source document in a different language. We introduce WikiMulti - a new dataset for cross-lingual summarization based on Wikipedia articles in 15 languages. As a set of baselines for further studies, we evaluate the performance of existing cross-lingual abstractive summarization methods on our dataset. We make our dataset publicly available here: https://github.com/tikhonovpavel/wikimulti