This study investigates the effectiveness of the proposed Bert2Bert and Bert2Bert+Xtreme models in improving abstract multi-document summarization for Indonesians. This research uses the transformer model to develop the proposed Bert2Bert and Bert2Bert+Xtreme models. This research utilizes the Liputan6 data set, which comprises news data along with summary references spanning 10 years from October 2000 to October 2010, and is commonly used in many automatic text summarization studies. The model evaluation results using ROUGE-1, ROUGE-2, ROUGE-L, and BERTScore indicate that the proposed model exhibits a slight improvement over previous research models, with Bert2Bert performing better than Bert2Bert+Xtreme. Despite the challenges posed by limited reference summaries for Indonesian documents, content-based analysis using readability metrics, including FKGL, GFI, and Dwiyanto Djoko Pranowo, revealed that the summaries produced by Bert2Bert and Bert2Bert+Xtreme are at a moderate readability level, meaning they are suitable for mature readers and align with the news portal’s target audience.
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