CNN/DailyMail Dataset as SQLite#

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Creates a SQLite database if the CNN and DailyMail summarization dataset.

Documentation#

See the full documentation. The API reference is also available.

Obtaining#

The easiest way to install the command line program is via the pip installer:

pip3 install zensols.cnndmdb

Binaries are also available on pypi.

Usage#

First create the SQLite database file: cnndmdb load and check to make sure the file data/cnn.sqlite3 was created. This takes a while since the entire corpus is first downloaded and then inserted into the SQLite file.

Command Line#

The SQLite database keys can be given:

cnndmdb keys

Then the command line can also be used to print articles:

cnndmdb show -t org 3b07f5102c69e3e609d73b2ccb0dc5549d4fbaf6

The -t org tells it to use the original corpus keys. This option also allows for selected SQLite rowid keys or a Kth smallest article.

API#

The corpus objects are accessible as mapped Python objects. For example:

corpus: Corpus = ApplicationFactory.get_corpus()
art: Article = next(iter(corpus.stash.values()))
print(art.text)

Data Source#

The data is sourced from a Tensorflow dataset, which in turn uses the Abigail See GitHub repository.

@article{DBLP:journals/corr/SeeLM17,
  author    = {Abigail See and
               Peter J. Liu and
               Christopher D. Manning},
  title     = {Get To The Point: Summarization with Pointer-Generator Networks},
  journal   = {CoRR},
  volume    = {abs/1704.04368},
  year      = {2017},
  url       = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1704.04368},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  eprint    = {1704.04368},
  timestamp = {Mon, 13 Aug 2018 16:46:08 +0200},
  biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/bib/journals/corr/SeeLM17},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}
@inproceedings{hermann2015teaching,
  title={Teaching machines to read and comprehend},
  author={Hermann, Karl Moritz and Kocisky, Tomas and Grefenstette, Edward and Espeholt, Lasse and Kay, Will and Suleyman, Mustafa and Blunsom, Phil},
  booktitle={Advances in neural information processing systems},
  pages={1693--1701},
  year={2015}
}

Changelog#

An extensive changelog is available here.

License#

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2023 Paul Landes