Title
Neural Label Search for Zero-Shot Multi-Lingual Extractive Summarization.
Abstract
In zero-shot multilingual extractive text summarization, a model is typically trained on English summarization dataset and then applied on summarization datasets of other languages. Given English gold summaries and documents, sentence-level labels for extractive summarization are usually generated using heuristics. However, these monolingual labels created on English datasets may not be optimal on datasets of other languages, for that there is the syntactic or semantic discrepancy between different languages. In this way, it is possible to translate the English dataset to other languages and obtain different sets of labels again using heuristics. To fully leverage the information of these different sets of labels, we propose NLSSum (Neural Label Search for Summarization), which jointly learns hierarchical weights for these different sets of labels together with our summarization model. We conduct multilingual zero-shot summarization experiments on MLSUM and WikiLingua datasets, and we achieve state-of-the-art results using both human and automatic evaluations across these two datasets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.42
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Conference
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ruipeng Jia102.03
Xingxing Zhang213416.05
Ya-nan Cao313119.42
Zheng Lin400.34
Shi Wang52812.46
Furu Wei61956107.57