Challenge: Davidson et al.: hate speech is a growing media presence, but research on generating CNs has been limited . he says a new dataset for CN generation is available for basque and spanish . this dataset is based on a multilingual encoder-decoder model .
Approach: They propose a new Basque and Spanish dataset for automatic CN generation . they use machine translation and professional post-edition to generate CNs in both languages .
Outcome: The proposed datasets show that training on post-edited data improves generation over monolingual settings . similar results in zero-shot crosslingual evaluations show multilingual data augmentation outperforms training in English and Spanish .

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