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2023 EMNLP EMNLP 2023

LANS: Large-scale Arabic News Summarization Corpus

Abstract

AbstractText summarization has been intensively studied in many languages, and some languages have reached advanced stages. Yet, Arabic Text Summarization (ATS) is still in its developing stages. Existing ATS datasets are either small or lack diversity. We build, LANS, a large-scale and diverse dataset for Arabic Text Summarization task. LANS offers 8.4 million articles and their summaries extracted from newspapers websites’ metadata between 1999 and 2019. The high-quality and diverse summaries are written by journalists from 22 major Arab newspapers and include an eclectic mix of at least more than 7 topics from each source. We conduct an intrinsic evaluation on LANS by both automatic and human evaluations. Human evaluation of 1,000 random samples reports 95.4% accuracy for our collected summaries, and automatic evaluation quantifies the diversity and abstractness of the summaries.

🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge — Deep Learning and Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
🧭 Keyword Pioneer — arabic text summarization
🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird — dataset construction
🐝 Cross-Pollinator — Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Data Science & Analytics, Deep Learning, Healthcare & Medicine, Interdisciplinary, Knowledge & Reasoning, Machine Learning, Mathematics & Optimization, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Robotics, Security & Privacy, Speech & Audio

Authors

Abdulaziz Alhamadani , Xuchao Zhang , Jianfeng He , Aadyant Khatri , Chang-Tien Lu

Topics

Natural Language Processing > Generation > Summarization Natural Language Processing > Resources & Methods > Multilingual NLP Machine Learning > Learning Types > Transfer Learning Natural Language Processing > Applications > Summarization Deep Learning > Models > Large Language Models

Keywords

extractive summarization text summarization multilingual summarization corpus construction abstractive summarization arabic language news article dataset construction large language model arabic text summarization
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