CMHG: A Dataset and Benchmark for Headline Generation of Minority Languages in China

Guixian Xu, Zeli Su, Ziyin Zhang, Jianing Liu, Xu Han, Ting Zhang, Yushuang Dong


Abstract
Minority languages in China, such as Tibetan, Uyghur, and Traditional Mongolian, face significant challenges due to their unique writing systems, which differ from international standards. This discrepancy has led to a severe lack of relevant corpora, particularly for supervised tasks like headline generation. To address this gap, we introduce a novel dataset, Chinese Minority Headline Generation (CMHG), which includes 100,000 entries for Tibetan, and 50,000 entries each for Uyghur and Mongolian, specifically curated for headline generation tasks. Additionally, we propose a high-quality test set annotated by native speakers, designed to serve as a benchmark for future research in this domain. We hope this dataset will become a valuable resource for advancing headline generation in Chinese minority languages and contribute to the development of related benchmarks.
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2025.emnlp-main.622
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Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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November
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2025
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Suzhou, China
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Guixian Xu, Zeli Su, Ziyin Zhang, Jianing Liu, Xu Han, Ting Zhang, and Yushuang Dong. 2025. CMHG: A Dataset and Benchmark for Headline Generation of Minority Languages in China. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 12350–12357, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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CMHG: A Dataset and Benchmark for Headline Generation of Minority Languages in China (Xu et al., EMNLP 2025)
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