Learning to Generate Wikipedia Summaries for Underserved Languages from Wikidata

Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Hady Elsahar, Pavlos Vougiouklis, Christophe Gravier, Frédérique Laforest, Jonathon Hare, Elena Simperl


Abstract
While Wikipedia exists in 287 languages, its content is unevenly distributed among them. In this work, we investigate the generation of open domain Wikipedia summaries in underserved languages using structured data from Wikidata. To this end, we propose a neural network architecture equipped with copy actions that learns to generate single-sentence and comprehensible textual summaries from Wikidata triples. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach by evaluating it against a set of baselines on two languages of different natures: Arabic, a morphological rich language with a larger vocabulary than English, and Esperanto, a constructed language known for its easy acquisition.
Anthology ID:
N18-2101
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers)
Month:
June
Year:
2018
Address:
New Orleans, Louisiana
Editors:
Marilyn Walker, Heng Ji, Amanda Stent
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NAACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
640–645
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/N18-2101
DOI:
10.18653/v1/N18-2101
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Cite (ACL):
Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Hady Elsahar, Pavlos Vougiouklis, Christophe Gravier, Frédérique Laforest, Jonathon Hare, and Elena Simperl. 2018. Learning to Generate Wikipedia Summaries for Underserved Languages from Wikidata. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers), pages 640–645, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Learning to Generate Wikipedia Summaries for Underserved Languages from Wikidata (Kaffee et al., NAACL 2018)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/N18-2101.pdf
Code
 pvougiou/Wikidata2Wikipedia