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LCSTS: A large scale Chinese short text summarization dataset

  • Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen

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Abstract

Automatic text summarization is widely regarded as the highly difficult problem, partially because of the lack of large text summarization data set. Due to the great challenge of constructing the large scale summaries for full text, in this paper, we introduce a large corpus of Chinese short text summarization dataset constructed from the Chinese microblogging website Sina Weibo, which is released to the public1. This corpus consists of over 2 million real Chinese short texts with short summaries given by the author of each text. We also manually tagged the relevance of 10,666 short summaries with their corresponding short texts. Based on the corpus, we introduce recurrent neural network for the summary generation and achieve promising results, which not only shows the usefulness of the proposed corpus for short text summarization research, but also provides a baseline for further research on this topic.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationConference Proceedings - EMNLP 2015
Subtitle of host publicationConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages1967-1972
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781941643327
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes
EventConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2015 - Lisbon, Portugal
Duration: 17 Sep 201521 Sep 2015

Publication series

NameConference Proceedings - EMNLP 2015: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Conference

ConferenceConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2015
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityLisbon
Period17/09/1521/09/15

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