{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/global-voices-crossing-borders-in-automatic","title":"Global Voices: Crossing Borders in Automatic News Summarization","arxiv_id":"1910.00421","date":"2019-10-01","proceeding":"WS 2019 11","authors":["Khanh Nguyen","Hal Daumé III"],"abstract":"We construct Global Voices, a multilingual dataset for evaluating cross-lingual summarization methods. We extract social-network descriptions of Global Voices news articles to cheaply collect evaluation data for into-English and from-English summarization in 15 languages. Especially, for the into-English summarization task, we crowd-source a high-quality evaluation dataset based on guidelines that emphasize accuracy, coverage, and understandability. To ensure the quality of this dataset, we collect human ratings to filter out bad summaries, and conduct a survey on humans, which shows that the remaining summaries are preferred over the social-network summaries. We study the effect of translation quality in cross-lingual summarization, comparing a translate-then-summarize approach with several baselines. Our results highlight the limitations of the ROUGE metric that are overlooked in monolingual summarization. Our dataset is available for download at https://forms.gle/gpkJDT6RJWHM1Ztz9 .","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.00421v4","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.00421v4.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"articles","task_name":"Articles"},{"task_slug":"news-summarization","task_name":"News Summarization"},{"task_slug":"translation","task_name":"Translation"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[{"slug":"global-voices","name":"Global Voices","full_name":""}],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":"https://syntology.ai/paper/1910.00421","atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1910.00421","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}