Indonesian News Text Summarization Using MBART Algorithm

Abstract

Purpose: Technology advancements have led to the production of a large amount of textual data. There are numerous locations where one can find textual information sources, including blogs, news portals, and websites. Kompas, BBC, Liputan 6, CNN, and other news portals are a few websites that offer news in Indonesian. The purpose of this study was to explore the effectiveness of using mBART in text summarization for Bahasa Indonesia.Methods: This study uses mBART, a transformer architecture, to perform fine-tuning to generate news article summaries in Bahasa Indonesia. Evaluation was conducted using the ROUGE method to assess the quality of the summaries produced.Results: Evaluation using the ROUGE metric showed better results, with ROUGE-1 of 35.94, ROUGE-2 of 16.43, and ROUGE-L of 29.91. However, the performance of the model is still not optimal compared to existing models in text summarization for another language.Novelty: The novelty of this research lies in the use of mBART for text summarization, specifically adapted for Bahasa Indonesia. In addition, the findings also contribute to understanding the challenges and opportunities of improving text summarization techniques in the Indonesian context.