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XL-Sum

by Hasan et al. / University of Edinburgh · free · Last verified 2026-03-17

XL-Sum is a large-scale benchmark dataset for multilingual abstractive summarization. It contains 1.35 million article-summary pairs from BBC News across 44 languages, designed to evaluate a model's ability to generate concise summaries across diverse linguistic families and writing systems.

https://github.com/csebuetnlp/xl-sum
B
BAbove Average
Adoption: BQuality: AFreshness: B+Citations: B+Engagement: F

Specifications

License
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Pricing
free
Capabilities
abstractive-summarization-evaluation, multilingual-nlp-benchmarking, cross-lingual-transfer-learning-assessment, low-resource-language-summarization, news-article-summarization, text-generation-evaluation, rouge-score-computation
Integrations
Use Cases
[object Object], [object Object], [object Object], [object Object], [object Object]
API Available
No
Evaluated Models
mbart-large-cc25, mt5-xl, gpt-4o, llama-3-70b
Metrics
rouge-1, rouge-2, rouge-l
Methodology
Test splits per language evaluated with standard ROUGE metrics (R-1, R-2, R-L). Macro-average across all 44 languages is the primary comparison metric. Models generate abstractive summaries; no extractive oracle is used.
Last Run
2026-01-05
Tags
summarization, multilingual, news, bbc, benchmark, dataset, nlp, text-generation, cross-lingual, abstractive-summarization, evaluation
Added
2026-03-17
Completeness
0.7%

Index Score

62.2
Adoption
68
Quality
85
Freshness
72
Citations
72
Engagement
0

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