Datasets:

HiTZ
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BasqueSumm

license: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
task_categories:
  - summarization
  - text-generation
  - fill-mask
language:
  - eu
pretty_name: BasqueSumm
size_categories:
  - 100K<n<1M

BasqueSumm

BasqueSumm was automatically compiled from www.berria.eus using trafilatura to extract the texts.

Each instance has the following key-value pairs:

"date" (str): When the article was published, formatted as "yyyy-mm-dd".
"url" (str): The URL of the original publication.
"category" (str): the articles topic, e.g., economy, society.
"title" (str): The title of the article.
"subtitle" (str): The subtitle of the article.
"summary" (str): The combined title + subtitle, which acts as a proxy for a reference summary.
"text" (str): The news article.

Dataset Details

Curated by: Jeremy Barnes
Language(s) (NLP): Basque (es-EU)
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Dataset Sources

Respository: https://github.com/hitz-zentroa/summarization
Paper: Summarization Metrics for Spanish and Basque: Do Automatic Scores and LLM-Judges Correlate with Humans?

Acknowledgements

This work has been partially supported by the Basque Government (IKER-GAITU project), the Spanish Ministry for Digital Transformation and of Civil Service, and the EU-funded NextGenerationEU Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (ILENIA project, 2022/TL-22/00215335 and 2022/TL22/00215334). Additional support was provided through DeepR3 (TED2021-130295B-C31) funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and European Union NextGeneration EU/PRTR; also through NL4DISMIS: Natural Language Technologies for dealing with dis- and misinformation (CIPROM/2021/021) and the grant CIBEST/2023/8, both funded by the Generalitat Valenciana.

Licensing

We release BASSE under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license

Citation

BibTeX:

@misc{barnes2025summarizationmetricsspanishbasque,
      title={Summarization Metrics for {S}panish and {B}asque: Do Automatic Scores and {LLM}-Judges Correlate with Humans?}, 
      author={Jeremy Barnes and Naiara Perez and Alba Bonet-Jover and Begoña Altuna},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2503.17039},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17039}, 
}

APA:

Barnes, J., Perez, N., Bonet-Jover, A., & Altuna, B. (2025). Summarization Metrics for Spanish and Basque: Do Automatic Scores and LLM-Judges Correlate with Humans?. arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.17039.