mRedditSum: A Multimodal Abstractive Summarization Dataset of Reddit Threads with Images (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing summarization datasets do not cover multimodal discussions, multiple modalities, or both . mRedditSum consists of 3,033 discussion threads and images with human-written summaries. |
| Approach: | They propose a multimodal discussion summarization dataset that annotates 3,033 discussion threads with a human-written summary. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms existing models and serves as competitive baseline for future work. |
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