Multi-XScience: A Large-scale Dataset for Extreme Multi-document Summarization of Scientific Articles
This provides a new benchmark for researchers in NLP working on multi-document summarization of scientific texts.
The authors tackled the lack of large-scale datasets for multi-document summarization by creating Multi-XScience, a dataset for generating related-work sections from scientific articles, and showed it is well-suited for abstractive models.
Multi-document summarization is a challenging task for which there exists little large-scale datasets. We propose Multi-XScience, a large-scale multi-document summarization dataset created from scientific articles. Multi-XScience introduces a challenging multi-document summarization task: writing the related-work section of a paper based on its abstract and the articles it references. Our work is inspired by extreme summarization, a dataset construction protocol that favours abstractive modeling approaches. Descriptive statistics and empirical results---using several state-of-the-art models trained on the Multi-XScience dataset---reveal that Multi-XScience is well suited for abstractive models.