Neural Label Search for Zero-Shot Multi-Lingual Extractive Summarization (2022.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to translate sentences to other languages using heuristics are challenging. |
| Approach: | They propose a model that learns hierarchical weights for different sets of labels and applies them to other languages to translate them. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can translate English datasets to other languages and obtain different sets of labels again using heuristics. |
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