Exploring News Summarization and Enrichment in a Highly Resource-Scarce Indian Language: A Case Study of Mizo
Abhinaba Bala, Ashok Urlana, Rahul Mishra, Parameswari Krishnamurthy
Abstract
Obtaining sufficient information in one’s mother tongue is crucial for satisfying the information needs of the users. While high-resource languages have abundant online resources, the situation is less than ideal for very low-resource languages. Moreover, the insufficient reporting of vital national and international events continues to be a worry, especially in languages with scarce resources, like Mizo. In this paper, we conduct a study to investigate the effectiveness of a simple methodology designed to generate a holistic summary for Mizo news articles, which leverages English-language news to supplement and enhance the information related to the corresponding news events. Furthermore, we make available 500 Mizo news articles and corresponding enriched holistic summaries. Human evaluation confirms that our approach significantly enhances the information coverage of Mizo news articles.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.wildre-1.6
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Indian Language Data: Resources and Evaluation
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Torino, Italia
- Editors:
- Girish Nath Jha, Sobha L., Kalika Bali, Atul Kr. Ojha
- Venues:
- WILDRE | WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- ELRA and ICCL
- Note:
- Pages:
- 40–46
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.wildre-1.6
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Abhinaba Bala, Ashok Urlana, Rahul Mishra, and Parameswari Krishnamurthy. 2024. Exploring News Summarization and Enrichment in a Highly Resource-Scarce Indian Language: A Case Study of Mizo. In Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Indian Language Data: Resources and Evaluation, pages 40–46, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
- Cite (Informal):
- Exploring News Summarization and Enrichment in a Highly Resource-Scarce Indian Language: A Case Study of Mizo (Bala et al., WILDRE-WS 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2024.wildre-1.6.pdf