Benchmarking Abstractive Summarisation: A Dataset of Human-authored Summaries of Norwegian News Articles
This provides a domain-specific benchmark for evaluating Norwegian summarization models, but it is incremental as it adapts existing benchmarking approaches to a new language.
The authors tackled the lack of a high-quality benchmark for abstractive summarization in Norwegian by creating a dataset of human-authored summaries for news articles, and they found that existing open LLMs perform poorly on this challenging benchmark.
We introduce a dataset of high-quality human-authored summaries of news articles in Norwegian. The dataset is intended for benchmarking the abstractive summarisation capabilities of generative language models. Each document in the dataset is provided with three different candidate gold-standard summaries written by native Norwegian speakers, and all summaries are provided in both of the written variants of Norwegian -- Bokmål and Nynorsk. The paper describes details on the data creation effort as well as an evaluation of existing open LLMs for Norwegian on the dataset. We also provide insights from a manual human evaluation, comparing human-authored to model-generated summaries. Our results indicate that the dataset provides a challenging LLM benchmark for Norwegian summarisation capabilities