language:ind language:eng summarization region:us
XL-Sum is a large-scale multilingual summarization dataset that covers 45 languages including Indonesian text summarization.
The dataset is based on article-summary pairs from BBC, is highly abstractive, concise, and of high quality, as indicated by human and intrinsic evaluation.
@inproceedings{hasan2021xl,
  title={XL-Sum: Large-Scale Multilingual Abstractive Summarization for 44 Languages},
  author={Hasan, Tahmid and Bhattacharjee, Abhik and Islam, Md Saiful and Mubasshir, Kazi and Li, Yuan-Fang and Kang, Yong-Bin and Rahman, M Sohel and Shahriyar, Rifat},
  booktitle={Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021},
  pages={4693--4703},
  year={2021}
}
---
tags:
- summarization
language:
- ind
- eng
---

# xl_sum

XL-Sum is a large-scale multilingual summarization dataset that covers 45 languages including Indonesian text summarization.

The dataset is based on article-summary pairs from BBC, is highly abstractive, concise, and of high quality, as indicated by human and intrinsic evaluation.

## Dataset Usage

Run `pip install nusacrowd` before loading the dataset through HuggingFace's `load_dataset`.

## Citation

```
@inproceedings{hasan2021xl,
  title={XL-Sum: Large-Scale Multilingual Abstractive Summarization for 44 Languages},
  author={Hasan, Tahmid and Bhattacharjee, Abhik and Islam, Md Saiful and Mubasshir, Kazi and Li, Yuan-Fang and Kang, Yong-Bin and Rahman, M Sohel and Shahriyar, Rifat},
  booktitle={Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021},
  pages={4693--4703},
  year={2021}
}
```

## License

CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0

## Homepage

[https://github.com/csebuetnlp/xl-sum](https://github.com/csebuetnlp/xl-sum)

### NusaCatalogue

For easy indexing and metadata: [https://indonlp.github.io/nusa-catalogue](https://indonlp.github.io/nusa-catalogue)