RoLargeSum: A Large Dialect-Aware Romanian News Dataset for Summary, Headline, and Keyword Generation
Andrei-Marius Avram, Mircea Timpuriu, Andreea Iuga, Vlad-Cristian Matei, Iulian-Marius Taiatu, Tudor Găină, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel, Mihaela-Claudia Cercel
Abstract
Using supervised automatic summarisation methods requires sufficient corpora that include pairs of documents and their summaries. Similarly to many tasks in natural language processing, most of the datasets available for summarization are in English, posing challenges for developing summarization models in other languages. Thus, in this work, we introduce RoLargeSum, a novel large-scale summarization dataset for the Romanian language crawled from various publicly available news websites from Romania and the Republic of Moldova that were thoroughly cleaned to ensure a high-quality standard. RoLargeSum contains more than 615K news articles, together with their summaries, as well as their headlines, keywords, dialect, and other metadata that we found on the targeted websites. We further evaluated the performance of several BART variants and open-source large language models on RoLargeSum for benchmarking purposes. We manually evaluated the results of the best-performing system to gain insight into the potential pitfalls of this data set and future development.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{avram-etal-2025-rolargesum,
title = "{R}o{L}arge{S}um: A Large Dialect-Aware {R}omanian News Dataset for Summary, Headline, and Keyword Generation",
author = "Avram, Andrei-Marius and
Timpuriu, Mircea and
Iuga, Andreea and
Matei, Vlad-Cristian and
Taiatu, Iulian-Marius and
G{\u{a}}in{\u{a}}, Tudor and
Cercel, Dumitru-Clementin and
Cercel, Mihaela-Claudia and
Pop, Florin",
editor = "Rambow, Owen and
Wanner, Leo and
Apidianaki, Marianna and
Al-Khalifa, Hend and
Eugenio, Barbara Di and
Schockaert, Steven",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
month = jan,
year = "2025",
address = "Abu Dhabi, UAE",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.coling-main.140/",
pages = "2049--2066"
}