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EmailSum (Email Thread Summarization)
Email Thread Summarization (EmailSum) is a dataset which contains human-annotated short (<30 words) and long (<100 words) summaries of 2,549 email threads (each containing 3 to 10 emails) over a wide variety of topics. It was developed to spur research in thread summarization.
Source: EMAILSUM: Abstractive Email Thread Summarization
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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
All 2 leaderboards whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.
| First row (archive order) | Paper | Code | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Email Thread Summarization | EmailSum (long) | SemiSuptogether BertS 32.3 | EmailSum: Abstractive Email Thread Summarization | ZhangShiyue/EmailSum | 3 | Compare |
| Email Thread Summarization | EmailSum (short) | SemiSuptogether BertS 33.91 | EmailSum: Abstractive Email Thread Summarization | ZhangShiyue/EmailSum | 3 | Compare |
Papers archive 2025-07-28
1 shown of 1 paper with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 3. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.
| Date | Samples run Syntology | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EmailSum: Abstractive Email Thread Summarization | 1 | 6 | 30 Jul 2021 | not harvested |
Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28
1 loader as listed in the archive; links are outbound and not re-checked here.
Tasks archive 2025-07-28
License archive 2025-07-28
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Modalities archive 2025-07-28
Languages archive 2025-07-28
Variants archive 2025-07-28
- EmailSum
- EmailSum (short)
- EmailSum (long)
3 variant names, as the archive lists them.
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