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Ziling Cheng

Master's Research - McGill University
Supervisor
Jackie Cheung
Research Topics
Natural Language Processing
Website
GitHub

Publications

Vārta: A Large-Scale Headline-Generation Dataset for Indic Languages
Rahul Aralikatte
Ziling Cheng
Sumanth Doddapaneni
Jackie Cheung
We present V\=arta, a large-scale multilingual dataset for headline generation in Indic languages. This dataset includes 41.8 million news a… (see more)rticles in 14 different Indic languages (and English), which come from a variety of high-quality sources. To the best of our knowledge, this is the largest collection of curated articles for Indic languages currently available. We use the data collected in a series of experiments to answer important questions related to Indic NLP and multilinguality research in general. We show that the dataset is challenging even for state-of-the-art abstractive models and that they perform only slightly better than extractive baselines. Owing to its size, we also show that the dataset can be used to pretrain strong language models that outperform competitive baselines in both NLU and NLG benchmarks.
2023-05-10
ArXiv (preprint)
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