WikiSum: Coherent Summarization Dataset for Efficient Human-Evaluation

Nachshon Cohen, Oren Kalinsky, Yftah Ziser, Alessandro Moschitti


Abstract
Recent works made significant advances on summarization tasks, facilitated by summarization datasets. Several existing datasets have the form of coherent-paragraph summaries. However, these datasets were curated from academic documents that were written for experts, thus making the essential step of assessing the summarization output through human-evaluation very demanding. To overcome these limitations, we present a dataset based on article summaries appearing on the WikiHow website, composed of how-to articles and coherent-paragraph summaries written in plain language. We compare our dataset attributes to existing ones, including readability and world-knowledge, showing our dataset makes human evaluation significantly easier and thus, more effective. A human evaluation conducted on PubMed and the proposed dataset reinforces our findings.
Anthology ID:
2021.acl-short.28
Volume:
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers)
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August
Year:
2021
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Online
Editors:
Chengqing Zong, Fei Xia, Wenjie Li, Roberto Navigli
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ACL | IJCNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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212–219
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-short.28
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.acl-short.28
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Nachshon Cohen, Oren Kalinsky, Yftah Ziser, and Alessandro Moschitti. 2021. WikiSum: Coherent Summarization Dataset for Efficient Human-Evaluation. In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 212–219, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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WikiSum: Coherent Summarization Dataset for Efficient Human-Evaluation (Cohen et al., ACL-IJCNLP 2021)
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