Challenge: Recent advances in abstractive summarization have focused on English, but more recently, with the advent of large pre-trained models, the task is becoming more complex.
Approach: They propose an approach to cross-lingual summarization that uses an intermediate planning step as a cross-linguistic bridge.
Outcome: The proposed approach achieves state-of-the-art in terms of informativeness and faithfulness on the XWikis dataset.

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Challenge: Cross-lingual summarization is a task of generating a summary in one language for a given document in a different language.
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Challenge: Recent years have witnessed increased interest in abstractive summarisation thanks to the popularity of neural network models and the availability of datasets containing hundreds of thousands of document-summary pairs.
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Challenge: a large-scale cross-lingual summarization dataset is available for free . a cross-linguistic summarizing model can be trained in any target language .
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Challenge: Existing evaluation metrics for monolingual summarization require translation to evaluate the factuality of cross-lingual summmarization.
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A Workbench for Rapid Generation of Cross-Lingual Summaries (L18-1)

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Challenge: Existing studies ignore data imbalance in multilingual settings and do not utilize monolingual data.
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Towards Unifying Multi-Lingual and Cross-Lingual Summarization (2023.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing work on multilingual summarization and cross-lingual summmarization has been limited due to their different definitions.
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