---
language:
- en
- de
- it
- es
- pt
- fr
- pl
multilingulality:
- multilingual
viewer: false
task_categories:
- summarization
---

> [!NOTE]
> Dataset origin: https://live.european-language-grid.eu/catalogue/corpus/7618/

## Description
WikinewsSum is a summarisation dataset presented in Generating Extended and Multilingual Summaries with Pre-trained Transformers.

WikinewsSum is based on [Wikinews](https://www.wikinews.org/). The Wikinews articles are used as summaries and the source texts as input texts for the summaries.

The dataset contains samples in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, and Italian