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MLSUM (MultiLingual SUMmarization)

Introduced by Thomas Scialom et al. in MLSUM: The Multilingual Summarization Corpus archive 2025-07-28

A large-scale MultiLingual SUMmarization dataset. Obtained from online newspapers, it contains 1.5M+ article/summary pairs in five different languages -- namely, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish. Together with English newspapers from the popular CNN/Daily mail dataset, the collected data form a large scale multilingual dataset which can enable new research directions for the text summarization community.

Source: MLSUM: The Multilingual Summarization Corpus

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

All 4 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
Abstractive Text Summarization MLSUM de mBART METEOR 0.437 The GEM Benchmark: Natural Language Generation, its... — 1 Compare
Abstractive Text Summarization MLSUM es mBART METEOR 0.210 The GEM Benchmark: Natural Language Generation, its... — 1 Compare
Abstractive Text Summarization mlsum-es no rows — — 0 Compare
Summarization MLSUM de no rows — — 0 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 45. 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
The GEM Benchmark: Natural Language Generation, its Evaluation and Metrics 0 2 2 Feb 2021 not harvested

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

3 loaders as listed in the archive; links are outbound and not re-checked here.

Tasks archive 2025-07-28

License archive 2025-07-28

No licence recorded in the archive. Absence here is not a statement about the dataset's terms.

Modalities archive 2025-07-28

Languages archive 2025-07-28

Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • MLSUM
  • MLSUM de
  • MLSUM es
  • mlsum-es
  • mlsum tu
  • MLSum-it

6 variant names, as the archive lists them.

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