| Challenge: | Existing evaluation methods for summarization of documents have been primarily focused on the English language. |
| Approach: | They propose to use ROUGE and PYRAMID to evaluate non-English data using English and non- English data sets. |
| Outcome: | The proposed evaluation methods can be adapted to non-English data, and the results show that they can perform well on non- English data. |
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