@inproceedings{bala-etal-2024-exploring,
    title = "Exploring News Summarization and Enrichment in a Highly Resource-Scarce {I}ndian Language: A Case Study of Mizo",
    author = "Bala, Abhinaba  and
      Urlana, Ashok  and
      Mishra, Rahul  and
      Krishnamurthy, Parameswari",
    editor = "Jha, Girish Nath  and
      L., Sobha  and
      Bali, Kalika  and
      Ojha, Atul Kr.",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Indian Language Data: Resources and Evaluation",
    month = may,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Torino, Italia",
    publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.wildre-1.6",
    pages = "40--46",
    abstract = "Obtaining sufficient information in one{'}s mother tongue is crucial for satisfying the information needs of the users. While high-resource languages have abundant online resources, the situation is less than ideal for very low-resource languages. Moreover, the insufficient reporting of vital national and international events continues to be a worry, especially in languages with scarce resources, like Mizo. In this paper, we conduct a study to investigate the effectiveness of a simple methodology designed to generate a holistic summary for Mizo news articles, which leverages English-language news to supplement and enhance the information related to the corresponding news events. Furthermore, we make available 500 Mizo news articles and corresponding enriched holistic summaries. Human evaluation confirms that our approach significantly enhances the information coverage of Mizo news articles.",
}

Obtaining sufficient information in one{'}s mother tongue is crucial for satisfying the information needs of the users. While high-resource languages have abundant online resources, the situation is less than ideal for very low-resource languages. Moreover, the insufficient reporting of vital national and international events continues to be a worry, especially in languages with scarce resources, like Mizo. In this paper, we conduct a study to investigate the effectiveness of a simple methodology designed to generate a holistic summary for Mizo news articles, which leverages English-language news to supplement and enhance the information related to the corresponding news events. Furthermore, we make available 500 Mizo news articles and corresponding enriched holistic summaries. Human evaluation confirms that our approach significantly enhances the information coverage of Mizo news articles.
Bala, Abhinaba Urlana, Ashok Mishra, Rahul Krishnamurthy, Parameswari
Exploring News Summarization and Enrichment in a Highly Resource-Scarce Indian Language: A Case Study of Mizo