Also known as: XL-Sum (xlsum) Β· xlsum Β· XL-Sum xlsum Β· XL Sum [xlsum]
XL-Sum is a multilingual benchmark dataset for evaluating text summarization by large language models. It contains BBC-derived articles and author-written summaries across many languages, supporting assessment of abstractive summarization beyond English-only settings.
A dataset for evaluating an LLM's proficiency in summarizing text. XL-Sum provides entries in many languages. Each entry in the dataset contains: - An article, taken from the British Broadcasting Company (BBC). - A summary of the article, written by the article's author. Note that that summary can contain words or phrases not present in the article. For details, see XL-Sum: Large-Scale Multilingual Abstractive Summarization for 44 Languages.