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HowSumm
HowSumm is a large-scale query-focused multi-document summarization dataset. It is focused on summarization of various sources to create HowTo guides. It is derived from wikiHow articles.
HowSumm is partitioned into HowSumm-Step where target summary is relatively short (avg. 90 words) and HowSumm-Method where target summary is a concatenation of several steps an therefore longer (avg. 500 words). HowSumm-Method and HowSumm-Step contain 11,121 and 84348 instances, respectively.
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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
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| First row (archive order) | Paper | Code | ||||
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| Document Summarization | HowSumm-Step | LexRank (query: step title) ROUGE-1 39.6 | HowSumm: A Multi-Document Summarization Dataset Derived... | odelliab/HowSumm | 11 | Compare |
| Document Summarization | HowSumm-Method | LexRank (query: method + article + steps titles) ROUGE-1 53.5 | HowSumm: A Multi-Document Summarization Dataset Derived... | odelliab/HowSumm | 9 | 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 1. 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HowSumm: A Multi-Document Summarization Dataset Derived from WikiHow Articles | 1 | 20 | 7 Oct 2021 | not harvested |
Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28
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Tasks archive 2025-07-28
License archive 2025-07-28
Modalities archive 2025-07-28
Languages archive 2025-07-28
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Variants archive 2025-07-28
- HowSumm
- HowSumm-Step
- HowSumm-Method
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