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CMU Book Summary Dataset

Introduced by David Bamman et al. in New Alignment Methods for Discriminative Book Summarization6 May 2013 archive 2025-07-28

This dataset contains plot summaries for 16,559 books extracted from Wikipedia, along with aligned metadata from Freebase, including book author, title, and genre.

All data is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. For questions or comments, please contact David Bamman (dbamman@cs.cmu.edu).

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Papers archive 2025-07-28

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License archive 2025-07-28

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States

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Variants archive 2025-07-28

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