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annotations_creators:
- automatically-created
language_creators:
- unknown
language:
- en
license:
- cc-by-sa-3.0
multilinguality:
- unknown
size_categories:
- unknown
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- original
task_categories:
- summarization
task_ids: []
pretty_name: wiki_cat_sum
---

# Dataset Card for GEM/wiki_cat_sum

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage:** https://github.com/lauhaide/WikiCatSum
- **Repository:** https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/3368
- **Paper:** https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04687
- **Leaderboard:** N/A
- **Point of Contact:** Laura Perez-Beltrachini

### Link to Main Data Card

You can find the main data card on the [GEM Website](https://gem-benchmark.com/data_cards/wiki_cat_sum).

### Dataset Summary 

WikiCatSum is an English summarization dataset in three domains: animals, companies, and film. It provides multiple paragraphs of text paired with a summary of the paragraphs.

You can load the dataset via:
```
import datasets
data = datasets.load_dataset('GEM/wiki_cat_sum')
```
The data loader can be found [here](https://huggingface.co/datasets/GEM/wiki_cat_sum).

#### website
[Github](https://github.com/lauhaide/WikiCatSum)

#### paper
[Arxiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04687)

#### authors
Laura Perez-Beltrachini, Yang Liu, Mirella Lapata (University of Edinburgh) Peter J. Liu, Mohammad Saleh, Etienne Pot, Ben Goodrich, Ryan Sepassi, Lukasz Kaiser, Noam Shazeer (GoogleBrain)

## Dataset Overview

### Where to find the Data and its Documentation

#### Webpage

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[Github](https://github.com/lauhaide/WikiCatSum)

#### Download

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[Website](https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/3368)

#### Paper

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[Arxiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04687)

#### BibTex

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```
@inproceedings{perez-beltrachini-etal-2019-generating,
    title = "Generating Summaries with Topic Templates and Structured Convolutional Decoders",
    author = "Perez-Beltrachini, Laura  and
      Liu, Yang  and
      Lapata, Mirella",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
    month = jul,
    year = "2019",
    address = "Florence, Italy",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/P19-1504",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/P19-1504",
}
```

#### Contact Name

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Laura Perez-Beltrachini

#### Contact Email

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lperez@ed.ac.uk

#### Has a Leaderboard?

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no


### Languages and Intended Use

#### Multilingual?

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no

#### Covered Languages

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`English`

#### License

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cc-by-sa-3.0: Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 Unported

#### Intended Use

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Research on multi-document abstractive summarisation.

#### Primary Task

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Summarization

#### Communicative Goal

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Summarise the most important facts of a given entity in the Film, Company, and Animal domains from a cluster of related documents. 


### Credit

#### Curation Organization Type(s)

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`industry`, `academic`

#### Curation Organization(s)

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Google Cloud Platform, University of Edinburgh

#### Dataset Creators

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Laura Perez-Beltrachini, Yang Liu, Mirella Lapata (University of Edinburgh) Peter J. Liu, Mohammad Saleh, Etienne Pot, Ben Goodrich, Ryan Sepassi, Lukasz Kaiser, Noam Shazeer (GoogleBrain)

#### Funding

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Google Cloud Platform, European Research Council

#### Who added the Dataset to GEM?

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Ronald Cardenas (University of Edinburgh) Laura Perez-Beltrachini (University of Edinburgh) 


### Dataset Structure

#### Data Fields

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- `id`: ID of the data example 
- `title`: Is the Wikipedia article's title
- `paragraphs`: Is the ranked list of paragraphs from the set of crawled texts
- `summary`: Is constituted by a list of sentences together with their corresponding topic label

#### Example Instance

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This is a truncated example from the animal setting: 

```
{'gem_id': 'animal-train-1',
 'gem_parent_id': 'animal-train-1',
 'id': '2652',
 'paragraphs': ["lytrosis (hulst) of louisiana vernon antoine brou jr. 2005. southern lepidopterists' news, 27: 7 ., ..."],
 'references': ['lytrosis unitaria , the common lytrosis moth, is a species of moth of the geometridae family. it is found in north america, including arkansas, georgia, iowa , massachusetts, and wisconsin. the wingspan is about 50 mm. the larvae feed on rosa, crataegus, amelanchier, acer, quercus and viburnum species.'],
 'summary': {'text': ['lytrosis unitaria , the common lytrosis moth , is a species of moth of the geometridae family .',
   'it is found in north america , including arkansas , georgia , iowa , massachusetts , new hampshire , new jersey , new york , north carolina , ohio , oklahoma , ontario , pennsylvania , south carolina , tennessee , texas , virginia , west virginia and wisconsin .',
   'the wingspan is about 50 mm .',
   'the larvae feed on rosa , crataegus , amelanchier , acer , quercus and viburnum species . '],
  'topic': [29, 20, 9, 8]},
 'target': 'lytrosis unitaria , the common lytrosis moth, is a species of moth of the geometridae family. it is found in north america, including arkansas, georgia, iowa , massachusetts, and wisconsin. the wingspan is about 50 mm. the larvae feed on rosa, crataegus, amelanchier, acer, quercus and viburnum species.',
 'title': 'lytrosis unitaria'}
```

#### Data Splits

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Nb of instances in train/valid/test are 50,938/2,855/2,831

#### Splitting Criteria

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The data was split i.i.d., i.e. uniformly split into training, validation, and test datasets.



## Dataset in GEM

### Rationale for Inclusion in GEM

#### Why is the Dataset in GEM?

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Evaluation of models' performance on noisy (document, summary) pairs and long inputs.
Evaluate models' capabilities to generalise and mitigate biases.  

#### Similar Datasets

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no

#### Unique Language Coverage

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no

#### Ability that the Dataset measures

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Capabilities to generalise, mitigate biases, factual correctness.  


### GEM-Specific Curation

#### Modificatied for GEM?

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yes

#### GEM Modifications

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`annotations added`

#### Modification Details

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We provide topic labels for summary sentences.

#### Additional Splits?

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no


### Getting Started with the Task

#### Pointers to Resources

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- [Generating Wikipedia by Summarizing Long Sequences](https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.10198)
- [Generating Summaries with Topic Templates and Structured Convolutional Decoders](https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04687)
- [Noisy Self-Knowledge Distillation for Text Summarization](https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.07032)

And all references in these papers.



## Previous Results

### Previous Results

#### Measured Model Abilities

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Capabilities to generalise, mitigate biases, factual correctness.

#### Metrics

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`ROUGE`, `BERT-Score`, `MoverScore`, `Other: Other Metrics`

#### Other Metrics

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- Abstract/Copy
- Factual accuracy based on the score of (Goodrich et al., 2019) and the relation extraction system of (Sorokin and Gurevych, 2017).

#### Proposed Evaluation

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Human based are Question Answering and Ranking (Content, Fluency and  Repetition)

#### Previous results available?

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yes

#### Other Evaluation Approaches

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Those listed above.

#### Relevant Previous Results

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Generating Summaries with Topic Templates and Structured Convolutional Decoders
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04687

Noisy Self-Knowledge Distillation for Text Summarization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.07032




## Dataset Curation

### Original Curation

#### Original Curation Rationale

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The dataset is a subset of the WikiSum (Liu et al., 2018) dataset focusing on summaries of entities in three domains (Film, Company, and Animal). It is multi-document summarisation where input-output pairs for each example entity are created as follows. The input is a set of paragraphs collected from i) documents in the Reference section of the entity's Wikipedia page plus ii) documents collected from the top ten search results after querying Google search engine with the entity name. The output summary is the Wikipedia abstract for the entity.

#### Communicative Goal

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Generate descriptive summaries with specific domains, where certain topics are discussed and generally in specific orders.

#### Sourced from Different Sources

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yes

#### Source Details

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WikiSum (Liu et al., 2018)


### Language Data

#### How was Language Data Obtained?

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`Other`

#### Topics Covered

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The dataset and task focuses on summaries for entities in three domains:  Company, Film, and Animal.

#### Data Validation

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not validated

#### Data Preprocessing

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Summary sentences are associated with a topic label. There is a topic model for each domain. 

#### Was Data Filtered?

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not filtered


### Structured Annotations

#### Additional Annotations?

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automatically created

#### Annotation Service?

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no

#### Annotation Values

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Each summary sentences was annotated with a topic label. There is a topic model for each of the three domains. This was used to guide a hierarchical decoder. 

#### Any Quality Control?

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validated by data curators

#### Quality Control Details

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Manual inspection of a sample of topics assigned to sentences. The number of topics was selected based on the  performance of the summarisation model.


### Consent

#### Any Consent Policy?

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no

#### Justification for Using the Data

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The dataset is base on Wikipedia and referenced and retrieved documents crawled from the Web.


### Private Identifying Information (PII)

#### Contains PII?

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unlikely

#### Any PII Identification?

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no identification


### Maintenance

#### Any Maintenance Plan?

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no



## Broader Social Context

### Previous Work on the Social Impact of the Dataset

#### Usage of Models based on the Data

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no


### Impact on Under-Served Communities

#### Addresses needs of underserved Communities?

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no


### Discussion of Biases

#### Any Documented Social Biases?

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yes

#### Links and Summaries of Analysis Work

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This dataset is based on Wikipedia and thus biases analysis on other Wikipedia-based datasets are potentially true for  WikiCatSum.  For instance, see analysis for the ToTTo dataset here [1].

[1] Automatic Construction of Evaluation Suites for Natural Language Generation Datasets
https://openreview.net/forum?id=CSi1eu_2q96





## Considerations for Using the Data

### PII Risks and Liability



### Licenses

#### Copyright Restrictions on the Dataset

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`public domain`

#### Copyright Restrictions on the Language Data

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`public domain`


### Known Technical Limitations