---
license: cc-by-sa-4.0
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: meeting_id
    dtype: string
  - name: speaker_id
    dtype: string
  - name: audio_id
    dtype: string
  - name: audio
    dtype: audio
  - name: segments
    list:
    - name: end
      dtype: float64
    - name: start
      dtype: float64
    - name: transcript
      dtype: string
    - name: words
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      - name: end
        dtype: float64
      - name: start
        dtype: float64
      - name: word
        dtype: string
  - name: transcript
    dtype: string
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  - name: train
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  - name: test
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    num_examples: 124
  download_size: 120234623488
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configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: dev
    path: data/dev/*
  - split: test
    path: data/test/*
  - split: train
    path: data/train/*
- config_name: example
  data_files:
  - split: example
    path: data/example/*
task_categories:
- automatic-speech-recognition
- voice-activity-detection
language:
- fr
---

# Dataset Card for SUMM-RE 

A collection of transcripts of French conversations, aligned with the audio signal.

Data from the `dev` and `test` splits have been manually transcribed and aligned and so are suitable for the evaluation of automatic speech recognition and voice activity detection models. 

Data from the `train` split has been automatically transcribed and aligned with the Whisper pipeline described in Yamasaki et al. (2023): "Transcribing And Aligning Conversational Speech: A Hybrid Pipeline Applied To French Conversations".

The audio and transcripts used to evaluate this pipeline, a subset of the `dev` split<sup>*</sup>, can be found on [Ortolang](https://www.ortolang.fr/market/corpora/summ-re-asru/).

The full dataset is described in Hunter et al. (2024): "SUMM-RE: A corpus of French meeting-style conversations".



## Dataset Description

The SUMM-RE dataset is a corpus of meeting-style conversations in French created for the purpose of the SUMM-RE project (ANR-20-CE23-0017). 

Each conversation lasts roughly 20 minutes. The number of conversations contained in each split is as follows:
- `dev`: 36 (x ~20 minutes = ~12 hours)
- `train`: 210 (x ~20 minutes = ~70 hours)
- `test`: 37 (x ~20 minutes = ~12.3 hours)


Each conversation contains 3-4 speakers (and in rare cases, 2) and each participant has an individual microphone and associated .wav file, giving rise to the following number of files for each split:
- `dev`: 130
- `train`: 684
- `test`: 124


- **Created by:** Recording and manual correction of the corpus was carried out by the Language and Speech Lab (LPL) at the University of Aix-Marseille, France.
- **Funded by:** The National Research Agency of France (ANR) for the SUMM-RE project (ANR-20-CE23-0017).
- **Shared by:** LINAGORA (coordinator of the SUMM-RE project)
- **Language:** French
- **License:** CC BY-SA 4.0




## Uses

### Direct Use

The `dev` and `test` splits of SUMM-RE can be used for the evaluation of automatic speech recognition models and voice activity detection for conversational, spoken French. All splits can be used for the training of large language models. 

### Out-of-Scope Use

Due to its size, the corpus is not suitable for training of automatic speech recognition or voice activity detection models.

## Dataset Structure

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To visualize an example from the corpus, select the "example" split in the Dataset Viewer.

The corpus contains the following information for each .wav file:
- **meeting_id**, e.g. 001a_PARL, includes:
  - experiment number, e.g. 001
  - meeting order: a|b|c (there were three meetings per experiment)
  - experiment type: E (experiment) | P (pilot experiment)
  - scenario/topic: A|B|C|D|E
  - meeting type: R (reporting) | D (decision) | P (planning)
  - recording location: L (LPL) | H (H2C2 studio) | Z (Zoom) | D (at home)
- **speaker_id**
- **audio_id**: meeting_id + speaker_id
- **audio**: the .wav file for an individual speaker
- **segments**: a list of dictionaries where each entry provides the transcription of a segment with timestamps for the segment and each word that it contains:

```python

[
  {
    "start": 0.5,
    "end": 1.2,
    "transcript": "bonjour toi",
    "words": [
      {
        "word": "bonjour",
        "start": 0.5,
        "end": 0.9
      }
      {
        "word": "toi",
        "start": 0.9,
        "end": 1.2
      }
    ]
  },
  ...
 ]
```
- **transcript**: a string formed by concatenating the text from all of the segments 

## Example Use

To load the full dataset

```python

import datasets

ds = datasets.load_dataset("linagora/SUMM-RE")
```

Use streaming to avoid downloading the full dataset:

```python

import datasets

ds = datasets.load_dataset("linagora/SUMM-RE", split="dev", streaming=True)

for sample in ds:
    print(sample)
    break
```

Note: if the data viewer is not working, use the "example" subset.

## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

The full SUMM-RE corpus, which includes meeting summaries, is designed to train and evaluate models for meeting summarization. This version is an extract of the full corpus used to evaluate various stages of the summarization pipeline, starting with automatic transcription of the audio signal.

### Source Data

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The SUMM-RE corpus is an original corpus designed by members of LINAGORA and the University of Aix-Marseille and recorded by the latter. 

#### Data Collection and Processing

<!-- This section describes the data collection and processing process such as data selection criteria, filtering and normalization methods, tools and libraries used, etc. -->

For details, see [Hunter et al. (2024)](https://hal.science/hal-04623038/).

#### Who are the source data producers?

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Corpus design and production:
- University of Aix-Marseille: Océane Granier (corpus conception, recording, annotation), Laurent Prévot (corpus conception, annotatation, supervision), Hiroyoshi Yamasaki (corpus cleaning, alignment and anonymization), Roxanne Bertrand (corpus conception and annotation) with helpful input from Brigitte Bigi and Stéphane Rauzy.

- LINAGORA: Julie Hunter, Kate Thompson and Guokan Shang (corpus conception)

Corpus participants:
- Participants for the in-person conversations were recruited on the University of Aix-Marseille campus.
- Participants for the Zoom meetings were recruited through [Prolific](https://www.prolific.com/).

### Annotations

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Transcripts are not punctuated and all words are in lower case.

Annotations follow the conventions laid out in chapter 3 of [The SPPAS Book](https://sppas.org/book_03_annotations.html) by Brigitte Bigi. Transcripts may therefore contain additional annotations in the following contexts:

* truncated words, noted as a - at the end of the token string (an ex- example);
* noises, noted by a * (not available for some languages);
* laughter, noted by a @ (not available for some languages);
* short pauses, noted by a +;
* elisions, mentioned in parentheses;
* specific pronunciations, noted with brackets [example,eczap];
* comments are preferably noted inside braces {this is a comment!};
* comments can be noted inside brackets without using comma [this and this];
* liaisons, noted between = (this =n= example);
* morphological variants with <ice scream,I scream>,
* proper name annotation, like $ John S. Doe $.

Note that the symbols * + @ must be surrounded by whitespace.

#### Annotation process

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[More Information Needed]

#### Who are the annotators?

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Principal annotator for `dev`: Océane Granier 

Principal annotators for `test`: Eliane Bailly, Manon Méaume, Lyne Rahabi, Lucille Rico

Additional assistance from: Laurent Prévot, Hiroyoshi Yamasaki and Roxane Bertrand

#### Personal and Sensitive Information

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A portion of the `dev`split has been (semi-automatically) anonymized for the pipeline described in Yamasaki et al. (2023).

## Bias, Risks, and Limitations

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[More Information Needed]

### Recommendations

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## Citations

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Please cite the papers below if using the dataset in your work.

**Description of the full dataset:**

Julie Hunter, Hiroyoshi Yamasaki, Océane Granier, Jérôme Louradour, Roxane Bertrand, Kate Thompson and Laurent Prévot (2024): "[SUMM-RE: A corpus of French meeting-style conversations](https://hal.science/hal-04623038/)," TALN 2024.

```bibtex
@inproceedings{hunter2024summre,
  title={SUMM-RE: A corpus of French meeting-style conversations},
  author={Hunter, Julie and Yamasaki, Hiroyoshi and Granier, Oc{\'e}ane and Louradour, J{\'e}r{\^o}me and Bertrand, Roxane and Thompson, Kate and Pr{\'e}vot, Laurent},
  booktitle={Actes de JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2024. 31{\`e}me Conf{\'e}rence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, volume 1: articles longs et prises de position},
  pages={508--529},
  year={2024},
  organization={ATALA \& AFPC}
}
```

**The Whisper Pipeline:**

Hiroyoshi Yamasaki, Jérôme Louradour, Julie Hunter and Laurent Prévot (2023): "[Transcribing and aligning conversational speech: A hybrid pipeline applied to French conversations](https://hal.science/hal-04404777/document)," Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU).

```bibtex
@inproceedings{yamasaki2023transcribing,
  title={Transcribing And Aligning Conversational Speech: A Hybrid Pipeline Applied To French Conversations},
  author={Yamasaki, Hiroyoshi and Louradour, J{\'e}r{\^o}me and Hunter, Julie and Pr{\'e}vot, Laurent},
  booktitle={2023 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU)},
  pages={1--6},
  year={2023},
  organization={IEEE}
}
  ```
<sup>*</sup>The following meetings were used to evaluate the pipeline in Yamasaki et al. (2023):

```python
asru = ['018a_EARZ_055', '018a_EARZ_056', '018a_EARZ_057', '018a_EARZ_058', '020b_EBDZ_017', '020b_EBDZ_053', '020b_EBDZ_057', '020b_EBDZ_063', '027a_EBRH_025', '027a_EBRH_075', '027a_EBRH_078', '032b_EADH_084', '032b_EADH_085', '032b_EADH_086', '032b_EADH_087', '033a_EBRH_091', '033a_EBRH_092', '033a_EBRH_093', '033a_EBRH_094', '033c_EBPH_091', '033c_EBPH_092', '033c_EBPH_093', '033c_EBPH_094', '034a_EBRH_095', '034a_EBRH_096', '034a_EBRH_097', '034a_EBRH_098', '035b_EADH_088', '035b_EADH_096', '035b_EADH_097', '035b_EADH_098', '036c_EAPH_091', '036c_EAPH_092', '036c_EAPH_093', '036c_EAPH_099', '069c_EEPL_156', '069c_EEPL_157', '069c_EEPL_158', '069c_EEPL_159']
```

## Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge support from the Agence Nationale de Recherche for the SUMM-RE project (ANR-20-CE23-0017).