Cross-Lingual Abstractive Summarization with Limited Parallel Resources (2021.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to cross-lingual summarization use limited available cross-linguistic resources. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-task framework for cross-lingual abstractive summarization that uses a single decoder to generate monolingual and cross-linguistic summaries. |
| Outcome: | Experiments on two CLS datasets show that the proposed model outperforms baseline models in low-resource and full-dataset scenarios. |
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