WATS-SMS: A T5-Based French Wikipedia Abstractive Text Summarizer for SMS

Jean Louis Ebongue Kedieng Fendji, Désiré Manuel Taira, Marcellin Atemkeng and Adam Musa Ali
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Jean Louis Ebongue Kedieng Fendji: Department of Computer Engineering, University Institute of Technology, University of Ngaoundere, Ngaoundere P.O. Box 454, Cameroon
Désiré Manuel Taira: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Ngaoundere, Ngaoundere P.O. Box 454, Cameroon
Marcellin Atemkeng: Department of Mathematics, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa
Adam Musa Ali: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Ngaoundere, Ngaoundere P.O. Box 454, Cameroon

Future Internet, 2021, vol. 13, issue 9, 1-15

Abstract: Text summarization remains a challenging task in the natural language processing field despite the plethora of applications in enterprises and daily life. One of the common use cases is the summarization of web pages which has the potential to provide an overview of web pages to devices with limited features. In fact, despite the increasing penetration rate of mobile devices in rural areas, the bulk of those devices offer limited features in addition to the fact that these areas are covered with limited connectivity such as the GSM network. Summarizing web pages into SMS becomes, therefore, an important task to provide information to limited devices. This work introduces WATS-SMS, a T5-based French Wikipedia Abstractive Text Summarizer for SMS. It is built through a transfer learning approach. The T5 English pre-trained model is used to generate a French text summarization model by retraining the model on 25,000 Wikipedia pages then compared with different approaches in the literature. The objective is twofold: (1) to check the assumption made in the literature that abstractive models provide better results compared to extractive ones; and (2) to evaluate the performance of our model compared to other existing abstractive models. A score based on ROUGE metrics gave us a value of 52% for articles with length up to 500 characters against 34.2% for transformer-ED and 12.7% for seq-2seq-attention; and a value of 77% for articles with larger size against 37% for transformers-DMCA. Moreover, an architecture including a software SMS-gateway has been developed to allow owners of mobile devices with limited features to send requests and to receive summaries through the GSM network.

Keywords: text summarization; fine-tuning; transformers; SMS; gateway; French Wikipedia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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