Descartes: Generating Short Descriptions of Wikipedia Articles. (arXiv:2205.10012v1 [cs.CL])

We introduce and tackle the problem of automatically generating short
descriptions of Wikipedia articles (e.g., Belgium has a short description
Country in Western Europe). We introduce Descartes, a model that can generate
descriptions performing on par with human editors. Our human evaluation results
indicate that Descartes is preferred over editor-written descriptions about 50%
of time. Further manual analysis show that Descartes generates descriptions
considered as "valid" for 91.3% of articles, this is the as same editor-written
descriptions. Such performances are …

articles arxiv descartes wikipedia