On the State of German (Abstractive) Text Summarization

@inproceedings{Aumiller2023OnTS,
  title={On the State of German (Abstractive) Text Summarization},
  author={Dennis Aumiller and Jing Fan and Michael Gertz},
  booktitle={Datenbanksysteme f{\"u}r Business, Technologie und Web},
  year={2023}
}
With recent advancements in the area of Natural Language Processing, the focus is slowly shifting from a purely English-centric view towards more language-specific solutions, including German. Especially practical for businesses to analyze their growing amount of textual data are text summarization systems, which transform long input documents into compressed and more digestible summary texts. In this work, we assess the particular landscape of German abstractive text summarization and… 
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