SummBank 1.0
| Item Name: | SummBank 1.0 |
| Author(s): | Dragomir Radev, Simone Teufel, Horacio Saggion, Wai Lam, John Blitzer, Arda Celebi, Elliott Drabek, Danyu Liu, Hong Qi, Tim Allison |
| LDC Catalog No.: | LDC2003T16 |
| ISBN: | 1-58563-274-0 |
| ISLRN: | 352-475-235-734-5 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.35111/7v71-fh28 |
| Release Date: | December 18, 2003 |
| Member Year(s): | 2003 |
| DCMI Type(s): | Text |
| Data Source(s): | government documents |
| Application(s): | summarization, cross-lingual information retrieval |
| Language(s): | Yue Chinese, English |
| Language ID(s): | yue, eng |
| Online Documentation: | LDC2003T16 Documents |
| Licensing Instructions: | Subscription & Standard Members, and Non-Members |
| Citation: | Radev, Dragomir, et al. SummBank 1.0 LDC2003T16. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 2003. |
| Related Works: | View |
Introduction
SummBank 1.0 contains the data created for the Summer 2001 Johns Hopkins University Workshop which focused on text summarization in a cross-lingual information retrieval framework. The goal was to gather a corpus of original documents and summaries for use as gold standards by the documents summarization community.
The source of the data consists of 18,147 aligned bilingual (Cantonese and English) article pairs from the Information Services Department of the Hong-Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, which were published by the LDC in 2000 as Hong Kong News Parallel Text.
Data
This release contains 40 news clusters in English and Chinese, 360 multi-document, human-written non-extractive summaries, and nearly two million single document and multi-document extracts created by automatic and manual methods. MEAD was the summarizer that was reimplemented and upgraded during the workshop; versions of the software are available from the MEAD website.
This distribution includes roughly two million text files, totalling approximately 13GB uncompressed. The text files are encoded either as utf-8 for English or GB or Big-5 for Chinese.
Updates
Additional information, updates, bug fixes may be available on the SummBank website.