Dataset and code for the paper "Large Scale Multi-lingual Multi-modal Summarization dataset".

This repository contains data and code for our EACL 2023 paper "Large Scale Multi-lingual Multi-modal Summarization dataset". Please feel free to contact me at [email protected] for any question.

Please cite this paper if you use our code or data.

@inproceedings{verma-etal-2023-large,
    title = "Large Scale Multi-Lingual Multi-Modal Summarization Dataset",
    author = "Verma, Yash  and
      Jangra, Anubhav  and
      Verma, Raghvendra  and
      Saha, Sriparna",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
    month = may,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Dubrovnik, Croatia",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-main.263",
    pages = "3620--3632",
    abstract = "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. The dataset and code used in this work are made available at {``}https://github.com/anubhav-jangra/M3LS{''}.",
}

You can access and download zipped files of various languages here.

• Kindly clone the repo or download zip of the repo.
• Ensure that runscrapy.py file and scrapy-code folder are present in the same directory.
• run python3 runscrapy.py on terminal or the console you use run python programs

• pip install scrapy==2.5.1
• NOTE: Scrapy 2.5.1 is compatible with Python 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9. It is not compatible with Python 2.x.

Just for demo purposes the line11 of runscrapy.py is set as language_names = ['nepali'] The user can change it to the language which he/she desires to crawl/download.

This code is written in Python and uses the Scrapy library to perform web scraping on BBC news articles for a list of languages.

The code first imports the 'os' library for file and directory manipulation. It defines a list called 'languages' containing the names of several languages. It then prints out the list of available languages.

The variable 'language_names' contains a list of selected languages for which the scraping will be performed. Currently, it contains only the name of the Nepali language, but the user can append or modify this list to include any of the languages present in the 'languages' list.

The code then loops through each language name in the 'language_names' list. For each language, it constructs a path to the directory where the scraping code is located by joining the 'scrapy-code' directory with the language name using the 'os.path.join' function.

It then searches for a directory in this path with the prefix 'bbc' using the 'os.walk' function. If it finds a directory with this prefix, it looks for a 'spiders' subdirectory within it, which contains the spider file that will perform the scraping.

If this 'spiders' directory exists, the code changes the current directory to it using the 'os.chdir' function and runs the spider file using the 'os.system' function with the command "scrapy runspider bbcspider.py". This will start the web scraping process on the BBC news articles for the selected language.