Multimodal Abstractive Text Summarization

The How2 dataset contains 13,500 videos, or 300 hours of speech, and is split into 185,187 training, 2022 development (dev), and 2361 test utterances. It has subtitles in English and crowdsourced Portuguese translations. Source: exploring multiview correlations in open-domain videos

FINDSum is a large-scale dataset for long text and multi-table summarization. It is built on 21,125 annual reports from 3,794 companies and has two subsets for summarizing each company’s results of operations and liquidity. Source: Long Text and Multi-Table Summarization: Dataset and Method Image Source: https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-emnlp.145.pdf

Significant developments in techniques such as encoder-decoder models have enabled us to represent information comprising multiple modalities. This information can further enhance many downstream tasks in the field of information retrieval and natural language processing; however, improvements in multi-modal techniques and their performance evaluation require large-scale multi-modal data which offers sufficient diversity. Multi-lingual modeling for a variety of tasks like multi-modal summarization, text generation, and translation leverages information derived from high-quality multi-lingual annotated data. In this work, we present the current largest multi-lingual multi-modal summarization dataset (M3LS), and it consists of over a million instances of document-image pairs along with a professionally annotated multi-modal summary for each pair. It is derived from news articles published by British Broadcasting Corporation(BBC) over a decade and spans 20 languages, targeting diversity across five language roots, it is also the largest summarization dataset for 13 languages and consists of cross-lingual summarization data for 2 languages. We formally define the multi-lingual multi-modal summarization task utilizing our dataset and report baseline scores from various state-of-the-art summarization techniques in a multi-lingual setting. We also compare it with many similar datasets to analyze the uniqueness and difficulty of M3LS.