# WikiMulti: a Corpus for Cross-Lingual Summarization

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.11104 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.11104/

## Key facts

- Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 12 of its 18 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 23 Apr 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 12 of 12)

- [mT5: A massively multilingual pre-trained text-to-text transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.11934/) (2020)
- [Don't Give Me the Details, Just the Summary! Topic-Aware Convolutional Neural Networks for Extreme Summarization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1808.08745/) (2018)
- [Multilingual Denoising Pre-training for Neural Machine Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2001.08210/) (2020)
- [Abstractive Text Summarization Using Sequence-to-Sequence RNNs and Beyond](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1602.06023/) (2016)
- [Reading Wikipedia to Answer Open-Domain Questions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1704.00051/) (2017)
- [Beyond English-Centric Multilingual Machine Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.11125/) (2020)
- [XL-Sum: Large-Scale Multilingual Abstractive Summarization for 44 Languages](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.13822/) (2021)
- [WIT: Wikipedia-based Image Text Dataset for Multimodal Multilingual Machine Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.01913/) (2021)
- [WikiLingua: A New Benchmark Dataset for Cross-Lingual Abstractive Summarization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.03093/) (2020)
- [MLSUM: The Multilingual Summarization Corpus](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.14900/) (2020)
- [Global Voices: Crossing Borders in Automatic News Summarization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.00421/) (2019)
- [WikiGraphs: A Wikipedia Text - Knowledge Graph Paired Dataset](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.09556/) (2021)

## Built on by (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [WikiDes: A Wikipedia-Based Dataset for Generating Short Descriptions from Paragraphs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.13101/) (2022)
- [The State and Fate of Summarization Datasets: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.04585/) (2024)
- [XWikiGen: Cross-lingual Summarization for Encyclopedic Text Generation in Low Resource Languages](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.12308/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

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 in 15 languages. As a set of baselines for further studies, we evaluate the performance of existing cross-lingual abstractive summarization methods on our dataset. We make our dataset publicly available here: https://github.com/tikhonovpavel/wikimulti