Cross-Lingual Speech-to-Text Summarization

Cross-Lingual Text Summarization generates a summary in a language different from the language of the source documents. We propose a French-to-English cross-lingual transcript summarization framework that automatically segments a French transcript and analyzes the information in the source and the target languages to estimate the saliency of sentences. Additionally, we use a multi-sentence compression method to simultaneously compress and improve the informativeness of sentences. Experimental results show that our framework outperformed extractive methods using automatic sentence segmentation, even with transcription errors.