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Cross-lingual summarization (CLS) is the task to produce a summary in one particular language for a source document in a different language. We introduce WikiMulti - a new dataset for cross-lingual summarization based on Wikipedia articles…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Pavel Tikhonov , Valentin Malykh

Sentence simplification aims to make complex text more accessible by reducing linguistic complexity while preserving the original meaning. However, progress in this area remains limited for mid-resource and low-resource languages due to the…

We present a survey covering the state of the art in low-resource machine translation research. There are currently around 7000 languages spoken in the world and almost all language pairs lack significant resources for training machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Barry Haddow , Rachel Bawden , Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone , Jindřich Helcl , Alexandra Birch

Evaluating text summarization has been a challenging task in natural language processing (NLP). Automatic metrics which heavily rely on reference summaries are not suitable in many situations, while human evaluation is time-consuming and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Huyen Nguyen , Haihua Chen , Lavanya Pobbathi , Junhua Ding

Automatic text summarization is generally considered as a challenging task in the NLP community. One of the challenges is the publicly available and large dataset that is relatively rare and difficult to construct. The problem is even worse…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Kemal Kurniawan , Samuel Louvan

This paper introduces the SAMSum Corpus, a new dataset with abstractive dialogue summaries. We investigate the challenges it poses for automated summarization by testing several models and comparing their results with those obtained on a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Bogdan Gliwa , Iwona Mochol , Maciej Biesek , Aleksander Wawer

Cross-lingual summarization (XLS) generates summaries in a language different from that of the input documents (e.g., English to Spanish), allowing speakers of the target language to gain a concise view of their content. In the present day,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Jacob Parnell , Inigo Jauregi Unanue , Massimo Piccardi

Code-switching (CS) poses a significant challenge for Large Language Models (LLMs), yet its comprehensibility remains underexplored in LLMs. We introduce CS-Sum, to evaluate the comprehensibility of CS by the LLMs through CS dialogue to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Sathya Krishnan Suresh , Tanmay Surana , Lim Zhi Hao , Eng Siong Chng

This paper introduces a new speech dataset called ``LibriTTS-R'' designed for text-to-speech (TTS) use. It is derived by applying speech restoration to the LibriTTS corpus, which consists of 585 hours of speech data at 24 kHz sampling rate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Yuma Koizumi , Heiga Zen , Shigeki Karita , Yifan Ding , Kohei Yatabe , Nobuyuki Morioka , Michiel Bacchiani , Yu Zhang , Wei Han , Ankur Bapna

This paper presents ClinicSum, a novel framework designed to automatically generate clinical summaries from patient-doctor conversations. It utilizes a two-module architecture: a retrieval-based filtering module that extracts Subjective,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Subash Neupane , Himanshu Tripathi , Shaswata Mitra , Sean Bozorgzad , Sudip Mittal , Shahram Rahimi , Amin Amirlatifi

We propose the shared task of cross-lingual conversation summarization, \emph{ConvSumX Challenge}, opening new avenues for researchers to investigate solutions that integrate conversation summarization and machine translation. This task can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Yulong Chen , Ming Zhong , Xuefeng Bai , Naihao Deng , Jing Li , Xianchao Zhu , Yue Zhang

Personalization, the ability to tailor a system to individual users, is an essential factor in user experience with natural language processing (NLP) systems. With the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs), a key question is how to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Chris Richardson , Yao Zhang , Kellen Gillespie , Sudipta Kar , Arshdeep Singh , Zeynab Raeesy , Omar Zia Khan , Abhinav Sethy

Query-based document summarization aims to extract or generate a summary of a document which directly answers or is relevant to the search query. It is an important technique that can be beneficial to a variety of applications such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Mingjun Zhao , Shengli Yan , Bang Liu , Xinwang Zhong , Qian Hao , Haolan Chen , Di Niu , Bowei Long , Weidong Guo

Common law courts need to refer to similar precedents' judgments to inform their current decisions. Generating high-quality summaries of court judgment documents can facilitate legal practitioners to efficiently review previous cases and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Shuaiqi Liu , Jiannong Cao , Yicong Li , Ruosong Yang , Zhiyuan Wen

The task of condensing large chunks of textual information into concise and structured tables has gained attention recently due to the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) and their potential benefit for downstream tasks, such as text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Zheye Deng , Chunkit Chan , Weiqi Wang , Yuxi Sun , Wei Fan , Tianshi Zheng , Yauwai Yim , Yangqiu Song

Using supervised automatic summarisation methods requires sufficient corpora that include pairs of documents and their summaries. Similarly to many tasks in natural language processing, most of the datasets available for summarization are…

We present Speech-MASSIVE, a multilingual Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) dataset comprising the speech counterpart for a portion of the MASSIVE textual corpus. Speech-MASSIVE covers 12 languages from different families and inherits…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Beomseok Lee , Ioan Calapodescu , Marco Gaido , Matteo Negri , Laurent Besacier

In doctor-patient conversations, identifying medically relevant information is crucial, posing the need for conversation summarization. In this work, we propose the first deployable real-time speech summarization system for real-world…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Khai Le-Duc , Khai-Nguyen Nguyen , Long Vo-Dang , Truong-Son Hy

We investigate the potential of LLM-generated synthetic data for improving low-resource Machine Translation (MT). Focusing on seven diverse target languages, we construct a document-level synthetic corpus from English Europarl, and extend…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ona de Gibert , Joseph Attieh , Teemu Vahtola , Mikko Aulamo , Zihao Li , Raúl Vázquez , Tiancheng Hu , Jörg Tiedemann

Natural Language Processing (NLP) for lesser-resourced languages faces persistent challenges, including limited datasets, inherited biases from high-resource languages, and the need for domain-specific solutions. This study addresses these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-23 John Pavlopoulos , Juli Bakagianni , Kanella Pouli , Maria Gavriilidou