Systems and methods for multilingual keyword generation for low-resource language passages are disclosed. For example, high-resource language passages describing items in a catalog or other such passages may include numerous keywords for classifying and searching for the item while a low-resource language description of the item may not include the same rich keyword environment due to lower usage and traffic in the low-resource language. The systems and methods herein provide for leveraging the high-resource language through a multilingual natural language processing algorithm to identify similar passages across language barriers and identify keywords in the high-resource language for input into a decoder to generate keywords in the low-resource language.