Cross-Lingual Sentence Compression for Length-Constrained Subtitles in Low-Resource Settings (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | a new system for sentence compression is developed for broadcast and live media . the goal is to reduce the on-screen visual constraints of the text . |
| Approach: | They develop a machine translation and sentence compression system that trains on openly available parallel corpora organized by compression ratios. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system preserves high semantic meaning and metric evaluations for compressed contexts. |
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