ReflectSumm: A Benchmark for Course Reflection Summarization
Yang Zhong Mohamed Elaraby Diane Litman Ahmed Ashraf Butt Muhsin Menekse
This paper introduces ReflectSumm, a novel summarization dataset specifically
designed for summarizing students' reflective writing. The goal of ReflectSumm
is to facilitate developing and evaluating novel summarization techniques
tailored to real-world scenarios with little training data, %practical tasks
with potential implications in the opinion summarization domain in general and
the educational domain in particular. The dataset encompasses a diverse range
of summarization tasks and includes comprehensive metadata, enabling the
exploration of various research questions and supporting different
applications. To showcase its utility, we conducted extensive evaluations using
multiple state-of-the-art baselines. The results provide benchmarks for
facilitating further research in this area.