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# CaSum
## Dataset Description


- **Paper:** [Are Multilingual Models the Best Choice for Moderately Under-resourced Languages? A Comprehensive Assessment for Catalan](https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.07903)
- **Point of Contact:** Ona de Gibert Bonet (ona.degibert@bsc.es)

### Dataset Summary

CaSum is a summarization dataset. It is extracted from a newswire corpus crawled from the Catalan News Agency. The corpus consists of 217,735 instances that are composed by the headline and the body.
 
### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

Summarization, Language Model

### Languages

CA - Catalan

## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

One file per split, containing the text of the article and the the summary in jsonlines format.

### Data Splits

We split our dataset into train, dev and test splits

- train: 197,735 examples
- validation: 10,000 examples
- test: 10,000 examples

## Dataset Creation

### Methodology

We obtained each headline and its corresponding body and applied the following cleaning pipeline: deduplicating the documents, removing the documents with empty attributes, and deleting some boilerplate sentences. 

## Additional Information
### Dataset Curators

Ona de Gibert and Jordi Armengol-Estapé, from BSC-CNS, did the conversion and curation.

### Licensing information

This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/">Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License</a>.

### Citation Information

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### Funding

This work was funded by the [Catalan Ministry of the Vice-presidency, Digital Policies and Territory](https://politiquesdigitals.gencat.cat/en/inici/index.html) within the framework of the [Aina project](https://politiquesdigitals.gencat.cat/ca/tic/aina-el-projecte-per-garantir-el-catala-en-lera-digital/).