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---
annotations_creators:
- found
language_creators:
- found
language:
- en
license:
- cc0-1.0
multilinguality:
- monolingual
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- summarization
task_ids: []
paperswithcode_id: billsum
pretty_name: BillSum
tags:
- bills-summarization
dataset_info:
features:
- name: text
dtype: string
- name: summary
dtype: string
- name: title
dtype: string
splits:
- name: train
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num_examples: 18949
- name: test
num_bytes: 37866257
num_examples: 3269
- name: ca_test
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num_examples: 1237
download_size: 113729382
dataset_size: 272407638
configs:
- config_name: default
data_files:
- split: train
path: data/train-*
- split: test
path: data/test-*
- split: ca_test
path: data/ca_test-*
train-eval-index:
- config: default
task: summarization
task_id: summarization
splits:
train_split: train
eval_split: test
col_mapping:
text: text
summary: target
metrics:
- type: rouge
name: Rouge
---
# Dataset Card for "billsum"
## Table of Contents
- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
- [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
- [Supported Tasks and Leaderboards](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
- [Languages](#languages)
- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
- [Data Instances](#data-instances)
- [Data Fields](#data-fields)
- [Data Splits](#data-splits)
- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)
- [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale)
- [Source Data](#source-data)
- [Annotations](#annotations)
- [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information)
- [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data)
- [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset)
- [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases)
- [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations)
- [Additional Information](#additional-information)
- [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators)
- [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)
- [Citation Information](#citation-information)
- [Contributions](#contributions)
## Dataset Description
- **Homepage:** [https://github.com/FiscalNote/BillSum](https://github.com/FiscalNote/BillSum)
- **Repository:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
- **Paper:** https://aclanthology.org/D19-5406/
- **Paper:** https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.00523
- **Point of Contact:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 67.26 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 272.42 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 339.68 MB
### Dataset Summary
BillSum, summarization of US Congressional and California state bills.
There are several features:
- text: bill text.
- summary: summary of the bills.
- title: title of the bills.
features for us bills. ca bills does not have.
- text_len: number of chars in text.
- sum_len: number of chars in summary.
### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
### Languages
[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
## Dataset Structure
### Data Instances
#### default
- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 67.26 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 272.42 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 339.68 MB
An example of 'train' looks as follows.
```
{
"summary": "some summary",
"text": "some text.",
"title": "An act to amend Section xxx."
}
```
### Data Fields
The data fields are the same among all splits.
#### default
- `text`: a `string` feature.
- `summary`: a `string` feature.
- `title`: a `string` feature.
### Data Splits
| name |train|ca_test|test|
|-------|----:|------:|---:|
|default|18949| 1237|3269|
## Dataset Creation
### Curation Rationale
[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
### Source Data
#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization
The data consists of three parts: US training bills, US test bills and California test bills. The US bills were collected from the [Govinfo](https://github.com/unitedstates/congress) service provided by the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO) under CC0-1.0 license. The California, bills from the 2015-2016 session are available from the legislature’s [website](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/).
#### Who are the source language producers?
[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
### Annotations
#### Annotation process
[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
#### Who are the annotators?
[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
### Personal and Sensitive Information
[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
## Considerations for Using the Data
### Social Impact of Dataset
[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
### Discussion of Biases
[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
### Other Known Limitations
[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
## Additional Information
### Dataset Curators
[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
### Licensing Information
[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
### Citation Information
```
@inproceedings{kornilova-eidelman-2019-billsum,
title = "{B}ill{S}um: A Corpus for Automatic Summarization of {US} Legislation",
author = "Kornilova, Anastassia and
Eidelman, Vladimir",
editor = "Wang, Lu and
Cheung, Jackie Chi Kit and
Carenini, Giuseppe and
Liu, Fei",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on New Frontiers in Summarization",
month = nov,
year = "2019",
address = "Hong Kong, China",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/D19-5406",
doi = "10.18653/v1/D19-5406",
pages = "48--56",
eprint={1910.00523},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL},
}
```
### Contributions
Thanks to [@thomwolf](https://github.com/thomwolf), [@jplu](https://github.com/jplu), [@lewtun](https://github.com/lewtun) for adding this dataset.