BERT Fine-tuning For Arabic Text Summarization

1 code implementation • 29 Mar 2020 • Khalid N. Elmadani, Mukhtar Elgezouli, Anas Showk

Fine-tuning a pretrained BERT model is the state of the art method for extractive/abstractive text summarization, in this paper we showcase how this fine-tuning method can be applied to the Arabic language to both construct the first documented model for abstractive Arabic text summarization and show its performance in Arabic extractive summarization.

Abstractive Text Summarization Extractive Summarization