Dataset Card for SUMM-RE

A collection of transcripts of French conversations, aligned with the audio signal.

Data from the dev and test splits have been manually transcribed and aligned and so are suitable for the evaluation of automatic speech recognition and voice activity detection models.

Data from the train split has been automatically transcribed and aligned with the Whisper pipeline described in Yamasaki et al. (2023): "Transcribing And Aligning Conversational Speech: A Hybrid Pipeline Applied To French Conversations".

The audio and transcripts used to evaluate this pipeline, a subset of the dev split^*, can be found on Ortolang.

The full dataset is described in Hunter et al. (2024): "SUMM-RE: A corpus of French meeting-style conversations".

Dataset Description

The SUMM-RE dataset is a corpus of meeting-style conversations in French created for the purpose of the SUMM-RE project (ANR-20-CE23-0017).

Each conversation lasts roughly 20 minutes and involves 3-4 speakers. Each participant has an individual microphone and associated .wav file.

• Created by: Recording and manual correction of the corpus was carried out by the Language and Speech Lab (LPL) at the University of Aix-Marseille, France.
• Funded by: The National Research Agency of France (ANR) for the SUMM-RE project (ANR-20-CE23-0017).
• Shared by: LINAGORA (coordinator of the SUMM-RE project)
• Language: French
• License: CC BY-SA 4.0

Uses

Direct Use

The dev and test splits of SUMM-RE can be used for the evaluation of automatic speech recognition models and voice activity detection for conversational, spoken French. All splits can be used for the training of large language models.

Out-of-Scope Use

Due to its size, the corpus is not suitable for training of automatic speech recognition or voice activity detection models.

Dataset Structure

To visualize an example from the corpus, select the "example" split in the Dataset Viewer.

The corpus contains the following information for each .wav file:

• meeting_id, e.g. 001a_PARL, includes:
  • experiment number, e.g. 001
  • meeting order: a|b|c (there were three meetings per experiment)
  • experiment type: E (experiment) | P (pilot experiment)
  • scenario/topic: A|B|C|D|E
  • meeting type: R (reporting) | D (decision) | P (planning)
  • recording location: L (LPL) | H (H2C2 studio) | Z (Zoom) | D (at home)
• speaker_id
• audio_id: meeting_id + speaker_id
• audio: the .wav file for an individual speaker
• segments: a list of dictionaries where each entry provides the transcription of a segment with timestamps for the segment and each word that it contains:

[
  {
    "start": 0.5,
    "end": 1.2,
    "transcript": "bonjour toi",
    "words": [
      {
        "word": "bonjour",
        "start": 0.5,
        "end": 0.9
      }
      {
        "word": "toi",
        "start": 0.9,
        "end": 1.2
      }
    ]
  },
  ...
 ]

• transcript: a string formed by concatenating the text from all of the segments

Example Use

To load the dataset

import datasets

ds = datasets.load_dataset("linagora/SUMM-RE", name="main")

To load a particular split only, e.g. dev:

import datasets

ds = datasets.load_dataset("linagora/SUMM-RE", name="main", split="dev")

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

The full SUMM-RE corpus, which includes meeting summaries, is designed to train and evaluate models for meeting summarization. This version is an extract of the full corpus used to evaluate various stages of the summarization pipeline, starting with automatic transcription of the audio signal.

Source Data

The SUMM-RE corpus is an original corpus designed by members of LINAGORA and the University of Aix-Marseille and recorded by the latter.

Data Collection and Processing

For details, see Hunter et al. (2024).

Who are the source data producers?

Corpus design and production:

• University of Aix-Marseille: Océane Granier (corpus conception, recording, annotation), Laurent Prévot (corpus conception, annotatation, supervision), Hiroyoshi Yamasaki (corpus cleaning, alignment and anonymization), Roxanne Bertrand (corpus conception and annotation) with helpful input from Brigitte Bigi and Stéphane Rauzy.

• LINAGORA: Julie Hunter, Kate Thompson and Guokan Shang (corpus conception)

Corpus participants:

• Participants for the in-person conversations were recruited on the University of Aix-Marseille campus.
• Participants for the Zoom meetings were recruited through Prolific.

Annotations

Transcripts are not punctuated and all words are in lower case.

Annotations follow the conventions laid out in chapter 3 of The SPPAS Book by Brigitte Bigi. Transcripts may therefore contain additional annotations in the following contexts:

• truncated words, noted as a - at the end of the token string (an ex- example);
• noises, noted by a * (not available for some languages);
• laughter, noted by a @ (not available for some languages);
• short pauses, noted by a +;
• elisions, mentioned in parentheses;
• specific pronunciations, noted with brackets [example,eczap];
• comments are preferably noted inside braces {this is a comment!};
• comments can be noted inside brackets without using comma [this and this];
• liaisons, noted between = (this =n= example);
• morphological variants with <ice scream,I scream>,
• proper name annotation, like $ John S. Doe $.

Note that the symbols * + @ must be surrounded by whitespace.

Annotation process

[More Information Needed]

Who are the annotators?

Principal annotator for dev: Océane Granier

Principal annotators for test: Eliane Bailly, Manon Méaume, Lyne Rahabi, Lucille Rico

Additional assistance from: Laurent Prévot, Hiroyoshi Yamasaki and Roxane Bertrand

Personal and Sensitive Information

A portion of the devsplit has been (semi-automatically) anonymized for the pipeline described in Yamasaki et al. (2023).

Bias, Risks, and Limitations

[More Information Needed]

Recommendations

Citations

Please cite the papers below if using the dataset in your work.

Description of the full dataset:

Julie Hunter, Hiroyoshi Yamasaki, Océane Granier, Jérôme Louradour, Roxane Bertrand, Kate Thompson and Laurent Prévot (2024): "SUMM-RE: A corpus of French meeting-style conversations," TALN 2024.

@inproceedings{hunter2024summre,
  title={SUMM-RE: A corpus of French meeting-style conversations},
  author={Hunter, Julie and Yamasaki, Hiroyoshi and Granier, Oc{\'e}ane and Louradour, J{\'e}r{\^o}me and Bertrand, Roxane and Thompson, Kate and Pr{\'e}vot, Laurent},
  booktitle={Actes de JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2024. 31{\`e}me Conf{\'e}rence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, volume 1: articles longs et prises de position},
  pages={508--529},
  year={2024},
  organization={ATALA \& AFPC}
}

The Whisper Pipeline:

Hiroyoshi Yamasaki, Jérôme Louradour, Julie Hunter and Laurent Prévot (2023): "Transcribing and aligning conversational speech: A hybrid pipeline applied to French conversations," Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU).

@inproceedings{yamasaki2023transcribing,
  title={Transcribing And Aligning Conversational Speech: A Hybrid Pipeline Applied To French Conversations},
  author={Yamasaki, Hiroyoshi and Louradour, J{\'e}r{\^o}me and Hunter, Julie and Pr{\'e}vot, Laurent},
  booktitle={2023 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU)},
  pages={1--6},
  year={2023},
  organization={IEEE}
}

^*The following meetings were used to evaluate the pipeline in Yamasaki et al. (2023):

asru = ['018a_EARZ_055', '018a_EARZ_056', '018a_EARZ_057', '018a_EARZ_058', '020b_EBDZ_017', '020b_EBDZ_053', '020b_EBDZ_057', '020b_EBDZ_063', '027a_EBRH_025', '027a_EBRH_075', '027a_EBRH_078', '032b_EADH_084', '032b_EADH_085', '032b_EADH_086', '032b_EADH_087', '033a_EBRH_091', '033a_EBRH_092', '033a_EBRH_093', '033a_EBRH_094', '033c_EBPH_091', '033c_EBPH_092', '033c_EBPH_093', '033c_EBPH_094', '034a_EBRH_095', '034a_EBRH_096', '034a_EBRH_097', '034a_EBRH_098', '035b_EADH_088', '035b_EADH_096', '035b_EADH_097', '035b_EADH_098', '036c_EAPH_091', '036c_EAPH_092', '036c_EAPH_093', '036c_EAPH_099', '069c_EEPL_156', '069c_EEPL_157', '069c_EEPL_158', '069c_EEPL_159']

Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge support from the Agence Nationale de Recherche for the SUMM-RE project (ANR-20-CE23-0017).