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A Survey on Cross-Lingual Summarization

arXiv 2203.12515 ↗First posted 23 Mar 2022cs.CL cs.AIcited by 38

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Cross-lingual summarization is the task of generating a summary in one language (e.g., English) for the given document(s) in a different language (e.g., Chinese). Under the globalization background, this task has attracted increasing attention of the computational linguistics community. Nevertheless, there still remains a lack of comprehensive review for this task. Therefore, we present the first systematic critical review on the datasets, approaches, and challenges in this field. Specifically, we carefully organize existing datasets and approaches according to different construction methods and solution paradigms, respectively. For each type of datasets or approaches, we thoroughly introduce and summarize previous efforts and further compare them with each other to provide deeper analyses. In the end, we also discuss promising directions and offer our thoughts to facilitate future research. This survey is for both beginners and experts in cross-lingual summarization, and we hope it will serve as a starting point as well as a source of new ideas for researchers and engineers interested in this area.

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  1. 2022EUR-Lex-Sum: A Multi- and Cross-lingual Dataset for Long-form Summarization in the Legal Domaincited by 39
  2. 2023Controllable Text Summarization: Unraveling Challenges, Approaches, and Prospects -- A Surveycited by 18
  3. 2024Abstractive Text Summarization: State of the Art, Challenges, and Improvementscited by 17
  4. 2023Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Summarization via Large Language Modelscited by 16
  5. 2022UniSumm and SummZoo: Unified Model and Diverse Benchmark for Few-Shot Summarizationcited by 15
  6. 2023Towards Unifying Multi-Lingual and Cross-Lingual Summarizationcited by 15
  7. 2022A Survey on Medical Document Summarizationcited by 14
  8. 2022Understanding Translationese in Cross-Lingual Summarizationcited by 14
  9. 2022Summary-Oriented Vision Modeling for Multimodal Abstractive Summarizationcited by 14
  10. 2025MCIF: Multimodal Crosslingual Instruction-Following Benchmark from Scientific Talkscited by 14
  11. 2023PMIndiaSum: Multilingual and Cross-lingual Headline Summarization for Languages in Indiacited by 11
  12. 2023Cross-Lingual Knowledge Editing in Large Language Modelscited by 11
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  1. 2025XRAG: Cross-lingual Retrieval-Augmented Generationcited by 9
  2. 2023CroCoSum: A Benchmark Dataset for Cross-Lingual Code-Switched Summarizationcited by 8
  3. 2025Overcoming Data Scarcity in Generative Language Modelling for Low-Resource Languages: A Systematic Reviewcited by 8
  4. 2023μPLAN: Summarizing using a Content Plan as Cross-Lingual Bridgecited by 7
  5. 2023Revisiting Cross-Lingual Summarization: A Corpus-based Study and A New Benchmark with Improved Annotationcited by 7
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  7. 2023Multi-Modal Knowledge Graph Transformer Framework for Multi-Modal Entity Alignmentcited by 6
  8. 2023AspectMMKG: A Multi-modal Knowledge Graph with Aspect-aware Entitiescited by 5
  9. 2022GOAL: Towards Benchmarking Few-Shot Sports Game Summarizationcited by 2
  10. 2022Cross-Align: Modeling Deep Cross-lingual Interactions for Word Alignmentcited by 2
  11. 2023D2TV: Dual Knowledge Distillation and Target-oriented Vision Modeling for Many-to-Many Multimodal Summarizationcited by 2
  12. 2023Low Resource Summarization using Pre-trained Language Modelscited by 2
  13. 2023Surveying the Landscape of Text Summarization with Deep Learning: A Comprehensive Reviewcited by 2
  14. 2024Multi-Target Cross-Lingual Summarization: a novel task and a language-neutral approachcited by 2
  15. 2023Towards Zero-Shot Functional Compositionality of Language Modelscited by 1
  16. 2023Snowman: A Million-scale Chinese Commonsense Knowledge Graph Distilled from Foundation Modelcited by 1
  17. 2024SumTra: A Differentiable Pipeline for Few-Shot Cross-Lingual Summarizationcited by 1
  18. 2025Ensembling Multilingual Transformers for Robust Sentiment Analysis of Tweetscited by 1
  19. 2023Towards Consistency Filtering-Free Unsupervised Learning for Dense Retrievalcited by 0
  20. 2023OpenMSD: Towards Multilingual Scientific Documents Similarity Measurementcited by 0
  21. 2024ConVerSum: A Contrastive Learning-based Approach for Data-Scarce Solution of Cross-Lingual Summarization Beyond Direct Equivalentscited by 0
  22. 2025An Empirical Study of Many-to-Many Summarization with Large Language Modelscited by 0
  23. 2025A Customer Journey in the Land of Oz: Leveraging the Wizard of Oz Technique to Model Emotions in Customer Service Interactionscited by 0
  24. 2026Using Multimodal and Language-Agnostic Sentence Embeddings for Abstractive Summarizationcited by 0
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  26. 2026A Multi-Model Metric-based Selection Framework for Abstractive Text summarizationcited by 0