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},
}

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

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.