metadata

license: cc-by-nc-sa-3.0
task_categories:
  - summarization
  - text-generation
language:
  - en
size_categories:
  - 100K<n<1M

A cleaned version of the Wikihow dataset for abstractive text summarization.

Changes made

Changes to the original dataset include:

All words have been made lowercase
All punctuation removed except ".", "," and "-"
Spaces added before and after all punctuation
NA values dropped from dataset
Leading and trailing newline and space characters removed

These changes allow for easier tokenization.

Citation

@misc{koupaee2018wikihow,
    title={WikiHow: A Large Scale Text Summarization Dataset},
    author={Mahnaz Koupaee and William Yang Wang},
    year={2018},
    eprint={1810.09305},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}