SportsSum

SportsSum is a sports game summarization dataset in Chinese. The goal of SportsSum is to generate sports summaries from live commentaries.

If you find that this dataset is useful in your research, please consider citing our paper.

@inproceedings{Huang2020sportssum,
    author    = {Kuan-Hao Huang and
                 Chen Li and
                 Kai-Wei Chang},
    title     = {Generating Sports News from Live Commentary: A Chinese Dataset for Sports Game Summarization},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL)},
    year      = {2020},
}

Overview

SportsSum contains live commentaries and news articles of 5,428 soccer games from seven leagues.

League	Number of Games
Bundesliga	453
CSL	1371
Europa	143
La Liga	713
Ligue 1	161
Premier League	1220
Serie A	890
UCL	477
All	5428

Format

For each game, we have 3 files:

• live.json contains live commentary sentences with timeline information as well as scores.
• news.txt contains a news article.
• linesup.json contains some metadata, such as rosters, starting lineups, and player positions.