$\mu$PLAN: Summarizing using a Content Plan as Cross-Lingual Bridge

Understand

Cross-lingual summarization consists of generating a summary in one language given an input document in a different language, allowing for the dissemination of relevant content across speakers of other languages.

• The task is challenging mainly due to the paucity of cross-lingual datasets and the compounded difficulty of summarizing and translating.
• This work presents $\mu$PLAN, an approach to cross-lingual summarization that uses an intermediate planning step as a cross-lingual bridge.
• We formulate the plan as a sequence of entities capturing the summary's content and the order in which it should be communicated.