Introducing the Welsh Text Summarisation Dataset and Baseline Systems
Ignatius Ezeani, Mahmoud El-Haj, Jonathan Morris, Dawn Knight
Abstract
Welsh is an official language in Wales and is spoken by an estimated 884,300 people (29.2% of the population of Wales). Despite this status and estimated increase in speaker numbers since the last (2011) census, Welsh remains a minority language undergoing revitalisation and promotion by Welsh Government and relevant stakeholders. As part of the effort to increase the availability of Welsh digital technology, this paper introduces the first Welsh summarisation dataset, which we provide freely for research purposes to help advance the work on Welsh summarisation. The dataset was created by Welsh speakers through manually summarising Welsh Wikipedia articles. In addition, the paper discusses the implementation and evaluation of different summarisation systems for Welsh. The summarisation systems and results will serve as benchmarks for the development of summarisers in other minority language contexts.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.lrec-1.545
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Marseille, France
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association
- Note:
- Pages:
- 5097–5106
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.545
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Ignatius Ezeani, Mahmoud El-Haj, Jonathan Morris, and Dawn Knight. 2022. Introducing the Welsh Text Summarisation Dataset and Baseline Systems. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 5097–5106, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
- Cite (Informal):
- Introducing the Welsh Text Summarisation Dataset and Baseline Systems (Ezeani et al., LREC 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/starsem-semeval-split/2022.lrec-1.545.pdf
- Code
- ucrel/welsh-summarization-dataset