MLSUM: The Multilingual Summarization Corpus

Thomas Scialom, Paul-Alexis Dray, Sylvain Lamprier, Benjamin Piwowarski, Jacopo Staiano


Abstract
We present MLSUM, the first large-scale MultiLingual SUMmarization dataset. Obtained from online newspapers, it contains 1.5M+ article/summary pairs in five different languages – namely, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish. Together with English news articles from the popular CNN/Daily mail dataset, the collected data form a large scale multilingual dataset which can enable new research directions for the text summarization community. We report cross-lingual comparative analyses based on state-of-the-art systems. These highlight existing biases which motivate the use of a multi-lingual dataset.
Anthology ID:
2020.emnlp-main.647
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
Month:
November
Year:
2020
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Online
Editors:
Bonnie Webber, Trevor Cohn, Yulan He, Yang Liu
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
8051–8067
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.647
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.647
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Thomas Scialom, Paul-Alexis Dray, Sylvain Lamprier, Benjamin Piwowarski, and Jacopo Staiano. 2020. MLSUM: The Multilingual Summarization Corpus. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 8051–8067, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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MLSUM: The Multilingual Summarization Corpus (Scialom et al., EMNLP 2020)
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Data
MLSUMBigPatentCNN/Daily MailLCSTSMLQANEWSROOMNew York Times Annotated CorpusSNLI