LR-Sum: Summarization for Less-Resourced Languages

Chester Palen-Michel, Constantine Lignos


Abstract
We introduce LR-Sum, a new permissively-licensed dataset created with the goal of enabling further research in automatic summarization for less-resourced languages.LR-Sum contains human-written summaries for 40 languages, many of which are less-resourced. We describe our process for extracting and filtering the dataset from the Multilingual Open Text corpus (Palen-Michel et al., 2022).The source data is public domain newswire collected from from Voice of America websites, and LR-Sum is released under a Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.0), making it one of the most openly-licensed multilingual summarization datasets. We describe abstractive and extractive summarization experiments to establish baselines and discuss the limitations of this dataset.
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2023.findings-acl.427
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023
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July
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2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Anna Rogers, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Naoaki Okazaki
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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6829–6844
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.427
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10.18653/v1/2023.findings-acl.427
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Chester Palen-Michel and Constantine Lignos. 2023. LR-Sum: Summarization for Less-Resourced Languages. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, pages 6829–6844, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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