README.md

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language:
- eng
- deu
- ita
- spa
- por
- fra
- pol
multilingulality:
- multilingual
task_categories:
- sunmmarization
---


> [!NOTE]
> Dataset origin: https://live.european-language-grid.eu/catalogue/corpus/18633/

## Description
WikinewsSum is a summarisation dataset presented in Generating Extended and Multilingual Summaries with Pre-trained Transformers.

WikinewsSum is based on [Wikinews](https://www.wikinews.org/). The Wikinews articles are used as summaries and the source texts as input texts for the summaries.

The dataset contains samples in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, and Italian

## Citation
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German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (2022, April 27). WikinewsSum. Version 1.0.0 (automatically assigned). European Language Grid. [Dataset (Text corpus)]. https://doi.org/10.57771/z9dw-pa63

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