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GovReport

Introduced by Luyang Huang et al. in Efficient Attentions for Long Document Summarization5 Apr 2021 archive 2025-07-28

GovReport is a dataset for long document summarization, with significantly longer documents and summaries. It consists of reports written by government research agencies including Congressional Research Service and U.S. Government Accountability Office.

Compared with other long document summarization datasets, government report dataset has longer summaries and documents and requires reading in more context to cover salient words to be summarized.

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)PaperCode
Extractive Text Summarization GovReport MemSum (extractive) Avg. Test Rouge1 59.43 MemSum: Extractive Summarization of Long Documents Using... nianlonggu/memsum 2 Compare
Text Summarization GovReport FactorSum ROUGE-1 60.1 Factorizing Content and Budget Decisions in Abstractive... thefonseca/factorsum 2 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

4 shown of 4 papers 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 83. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

DateSamples run Syntology
Adapting Pretrained Text-to-Text Models for Long Text Sequences 1 1 21 Sep 2022 not harvested
Factorizing Content and Budget Decisions in Abstractive Summarization of Long Documents 1 1 25 May 2022 not harvested
MemSum: Extractive Summarization of Long Documents Using Multi-Step Episodic Markov Decision Processes 1 1 19 Jul 2021 not harvested
Efficient Attention: Attention with Linear Complexities 14 1 4 Dec 2018 ran 7 of 8 samples (1 unverified; 1 pointer-only for licence)

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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Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • GovReport

1 variant name, as the archive lists them.

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