MeetingBank: A Benchmark Dataset for Meeting Summarization
MeetingBank: A Benchmark Dataset for Meeting Summarization
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10.48550/arxiv.2305.17529
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2023-05
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Yebowen Hu;Timothy Jeewun Ganter;Hanieh Deilamsalehy;Franck Dernoncourt;H. Foroosh;Fei Liu
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Yebowen Hu;Timothy Jeewun Ganter;Hanieh Deilamsalehy;Franck Dernoncourt;H. Foroosh;Fei Liu
随着记录的会议数量的增加，利用摘要技术为这些记录创建有用的摘要变得越来越重要。然而，开发这种技术的关键问题是缺乏带注释的会议语料库，因为很难收集会议，特别是当讨论的主题是机密的时候。此外，由经验丰富的作者撰写的会议摘要很少，这使得抽象摘要者很难在没有可靠参考的情况下产生合理的输出。这种标注语料库的缺乏阻碍了会议摘要技术的发展。在本文中，我们介绍了会议银行，这是过去十年来市议会会议的一个新的基准数据集。在其他会议语料库中，MeetingBank是独一无二的，因为它采用了分而治之的方法，将专业撰写的会议纪要分成更短的段落，并将其与会议的特定部分结合起来。这样可以将长时间会议的总结过程分解成更小、更易于管理的任务。该数据集为各种会议摘要系统提供了一个新的测试平台，也使公众能够深入了解理事会的决定是如何做出的。我们公开这些集合，包括会议视频链接、记录、参考摘要、议程和其他元数据，以促进更好的会议摘要技术的发展。
As the number of recorded meetings increases, it becomes increasingly important to utilize summarization technology to create useful summaries of these recordings. However, there is a crucial lack of annotated meeting corpora for developing this technology, as it can be hard to collect meetings, especially when the topics discussed are confidential. Furthermore, meeting summaries written by experienced writers are scarce, making it hard for abstractive summarizers to produce sensible output without a reliable reference. This lack of annotated corpora has hindered the development of meeting summarization technology. In this paper, we present MeetingBank, a new benchmark dataset of city council meetings over the past decade. MeetingBank is unique among other meeting corpora due to its divide-and-conquer approach, which involves dividing professionally written meeting minutes into shorter passages and aligning them with specific segments of the meeting. This breaks down the process of summarizing a lengthy meeting into smaller, more manageable tasks. The dataset provides a new testbed of various meeting summarization systems and also allows the public to gain insight into how council decisions are made. We make the collection, including meeting video links, transcripts, reference summaries, agenda, and other metadata, publicly available to facilitate the development of better meeting summarization techniques.