Leveraging Entailment Judgements in Cross-Lingual Summarisation

Huajian Zhang, Laura Perez-Beltrachini


Abstract
Synthetically created Cross-Lingual Summarisation (CLS) datasets are prone to include document-summary pairs where the reference summary is unfaithful to the corresponding document as it contains content not supported by the document (i.e., hallucinated content). This low data quality misleads model learning and obscures evaluation results. Automatic ways to assess hallucinations and improve training have been proposed for monolingual summarisation, predominantly in English. For CLS, we propose to use off-the-shelf cross-lingual Natural Language Inference (X-NLI) to evaluate faithfulness of reference and model generated summaries. Then, we study training approaches that are aware of faithfulness issues in the training data and propose an approach that uses unlikelihood loss to teach a model about unfaithful summary sequences. Our results show that it is possible to train CLS models that yield more faithful and at the same time informative summaries.
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2024.findings-acl.862
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024
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August
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2024
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Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting
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Lun-Wei Ku, Andre Martins, Vivek Srikumar
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Huajian Zhang and Laura Perez-Beltrachini. 2024. Leveraging Entailment Judgements in Cross-Lingual Summarisation. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024, pages 14481–14497, Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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