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Sub-tasks:
news-articles-summarization
Languages:
English
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10K<n<100K
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metadata
annotations_creators:
  - expert-generated
language_creators:
  - expert-generated
language:
  - en
license:
  - other
multilinguality:
  - monolingual
pretty_name: Multi-News
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K
source_datasets:
  - original
task_categories:
  - summarization
task_ids:
  - news-articles-summarization
paperswithcode_id: multi-news
train-eval-index:
  - config: default
    task: summarization
    task_id: summarization
    splits:
      train_split: train
      eval_split: test
    col_mapping:
      document: text
      summary: target
    metrics:
      - type: rouge
        name: Rouge
dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: document
      dtype: string
    - name: summary
      dtype: string
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_bytes: 558392265
      num_examples: 44972
    - name: validation
      num_bytes: 68272432
      num_examples: 5622
    - name: test
      num_bytes: 70032124
      num_examples: 5622
  download_size: 756785627
  dataset_size: 696696821

Dataset Card for Multi-News

Table of Contents

Dataset Description

Dataset Summary

Multi-News, consists of news articles and human-written summaries of these articles from the site newser.com. Each summary is professionally written by editors and includes links to the original articles cited.

There are two features:

  • document: text of news articles seperated by special token "|||||".
  • summary: news summary.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

More Information Needed

Languages

More Information Needed

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

default

  • Size of downloaded dataset files: 256.96 MB
  • Size of the generated dataset: 700.18 MB
  • Total amount of disk used: 957.14 MB

An example of 'validation' looks as follows.

{
    "document": "some line val \n another line",
    "summary": "target val line"
}

Data Fields

The data fields are the same among all splits.

default

  • document: a string feature.
  • summary: a string feature.

Data Splits

name train validation test
default 44972 5622 5622

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

More Information Needed

Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

More Information Needed

Who are the source language producers?

More Information Needed

Annotations

Annotation process

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Who are the annotators?

More Information Needed

Personal and Sensitive Information

More Information Needed

Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

More Information Needed

Discussion of Biases

More Information Needed

Other Known Limitations

More Information Needed

Additional Information

Dataset Curators

More Information Needed

Licensing Information 

This Dataset Usage Agreement ("Agreement") is a legal agreement with LILY LAB for the Dataset made available to the individual or entity ("Researcher") exercising rights under this Agreement. "Dataset" includes all text, data, information, source code, and any related materials, documentation, files, media, updates or revisions.

The Dataset is intended for non-commercial research and educational purposes only, and is made available free of charge without extending any license or other intellectual property rights. By downloading or using the Dataset, the Researcher acknowledges that they agree to the terms in this Agreement, and represent and warrant that they have authority to do so on behalf of any entity exercising rights under this Agreement. The Researcher accepts and agrees to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement. If the Researcher does not agree to this Agreement, they may not download or use the Dataset.

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Citation Information 


@misc{alex2019multinews,
    title={Multi-News: a Large-Scale Multi-Document Summarization Dataset and Abstractive Hierarchical Model},
    author={Alexander R. Fabbri and Irene Li and Tianwei She and Suyi Li and Dragomir R. Radev},
    year={2019},
    eprint={1906.01749},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}

Contributions

Thanks to @patrickvonplaten, @lewtun, @thomwolf for adding this dataset.