
# Dataset Card for "billsum"

## Table of Contents
- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
  - [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
  - [Supported Tasks and Leaderboards](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
  - [Languages](#languages)
- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
  - [Data Instances](#data-instances)
  - [Data Fields](#data-fields)
  - [Data Splits](#data-splits)
- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)
  - [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale)
  - [Source Data](#source-data)
  - [Annotations](#annotations)
  - [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information)
- [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data)
  - [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset)
  - [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases)
  - [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations)
- [Additional Information](#additional-information)
  - [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators)
  - [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)
  - [Citation Information](#citation-information)
  - [Contributions](#contributions)

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage:** [https://github.com/FiscalNote/BillSum](https://github.com/FiscalNote/BillSum)
- **Repository:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
- **Paper:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
- **Point of Contact:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 67.26 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 272.42 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 339.68 MB

### Dataset Summary

BillSum, summarization of US Congressional and California state bills.

There are several features:
  - text: bill text.
  - summary: summary of the bills.
  - title: title of the bills.
features for us bills. ca bills does not have.
  - text_len: number of chars in text.
  - sum_len: number of chars in summary.

### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Languages

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

#### default

- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 67.26 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 272.42 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 339.68 MB

An example of 'train' looks as follows.
```
{
    "summary": "some summary",
    "text": "some text.",
    "title": "An act to amend Section xxx."
}
```

### Data Fields

The data fields are the same among all splits.

#### default
- `text`: a `string` feature.
- `summary`: a `string` feature.
- `title`: a `string` feature.

### Data Splits

| name  |train|ca_test|test|
|-------|----:|------:|---:|
|default|18949|   1237|3269|

## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Source Data

#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

The data consists of three parts: US training bills, US test bills and California test bills. The US bills were collected from the [Govinfo](https://github.com/unitedstates/congress) service provided by the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO) under CC0-1.0 license. The California, bills from the 2015-2016 session are available from the legislature’s [website](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/).

#### Who are the source language producers?

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Annotations

#### Annotation process

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

#### Who are the annotators?

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Personal and Sensitive Information

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

## Considerations for Using the Data

### Social Impact of Dataset

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Discussion of Biases

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Other Known Limitations

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

## Additional Information

### Dataset Curators

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Licensing Information

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Citation Information

```

@misc{kornilova2019billsum,
    title={BillSum: A Corpus for Automatic Summarization of US Legislation},
    author={Anastassia Kornilova and Vlad Eidelman},
    year={2019},
    eprint={1910.00523},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}

```


### Contributions

Thanks to [@thomwolf](https://github.com/thomwolf), [@jplu](https://github.com/jplu), [@lewtun](https://github.com/lewtun) for adding this dataset.
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TAGS
#task_categories-summarization #annotations_creators-found #language_creators-found #multilinguality-monolingual #size_categories-10K<n<100K #source_datasets-original #language-English #license-cc0-1.0 #bills-summarization #arxiv-1910.00523 #region-us 

Dataset Card for "billsum"
==========================


Table of Contents
-----------------


* Dataset Description
	+ Dataset Summary
	+ Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
	+ Languages
* Dataset Structure
	+ Data Instances
	+ Data Fields
	+ Data Splits
* Dataset Creation
	+ Curation Rationale
	+ Source Data
	+ Annotations
	+ Personal and Sensitive Information
* Considerations for Using the Data
	+ Social Impact of Dataset
	+ Discussion of Biases
	+ Other Known Limitations
* Additional Information
	+ Dataset Curators
	+ Licensing Information
	+ Citation Information
	+ Contributions


Dataset Description
-------------------


* Homepage: URL
* Repository:
* Paper:
* Point of Contact:
* Size of downloaded dataset files: 67.26 MB
* Size of the generated dataset: 272.42 MB
* Total amount of disk used: 339.68 MB


### Dataset Summary


BillSum, summarization of US Congressional and California state bills.


There are several features:


* text: bill text.
* summary: summary of the bills.
* title: title of the bills.
features for us bills. ca bills does not have.
* text\_len: number of chars in text.
* sum\_len: number of chars in summary.


### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards


### Languages


Dataset Structure
-----------------


### Data Instances


#### default


* Size of downloaded dataset files: 67.26 MB
* Size of the generated dataset: 272.42 MB
* Total amount of disk used: 339.68 MB


An example of 'train' looks as follows.


### Data Fields


The data fields are the same among all splits.


#### default


* 'text': a 'string' feature.
* 'summary': a 'string' feature.
* 'title': a 'string' feature.


### Data Splits



Dataset Creation
----------------


### Curation Rationale


### Source Data


#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization


The data consists of three parts: US training bills, US test bills and California test bills. The US bills were collected from the Govinfo service provided by the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO) under CC0-1.0 license. The California, bills from the 2015-2016 session are available from the legislature’s website.


#### Who are the source language producers?


### Annotations


#### Annotation process


#### Who are the annotators?


### Personal and Sensitive Information


Considerations for Using the Data
---------------------------------


### Social Impact of Dataset


### Discussion of Biases


### Other Known Limitations


Additional Information
----------------------


### Dataset Curators


### Licensing Information


### Contributions


Thanks to @thomwolf, @jplu, @lewtun for adding this dataset.



### Dataset Summary


BillSum, summarization of US Congressional and California state bills.


There are several features:


* text: bill text.
* summary: summary of the bills.
* title: title of the bills.
features for us bills. ca bills does not have.
* text\_len: number of chars in text.
* sum\_len: number of chars in summary. ### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards ### Languages


Dataset Structure
----------------- ### Data Instances #### default


* Size of downloaded dataset files: 67.26 MB
* Size of the generated dataset: 272.42 MB
* Total amount of disk used: 339.68 MB


An example of 'train' looks as follows. ### Data Fields


The data fields are the same among all splits. #### default


* 'text': a 'string' feature.
* 'summary': a 'string' feature.
* 'title': a 'string' feature. ### Data Splits



Dataset Creation
---------------- ### Curation Rationale ### Source Data #### Initial Data Collection and Normalization


The data consists of three parts: US training bills, US test bills and California test bills. The US bills were collected from the Govinfo service provided by the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO) under CC0-1.0 license. The California, bills from the 2015-2016 session are available from the legislature’s website. #### Who are the source language producers? ### Annotations #### Annotation process #### Who are the annotators? ### Personal and Sensitive Information


Considerations for Using the Data
--------------------------------- ### Social Impact of Dataset ### Discussion of Biases ### Other Known Limitations


Additional Information
---------------------- ### Dataset Curators ### Licensing Information ### Contributions


Thanks to @thomwolf, @jplu, @lewtun for adding this dataset.
TAGS
#task_categories-summarization #annotations_creators-found #language_creators-found #multilinguality-monolingual #size_categories-10K<n<100K #source_datasets-original #language-English #license-cc0-1.0 #bills-summarization #arxiv-1910.00523 #region-us 
 ### Dataset Summary


BillSum, summarization of US Congressional and California state bills.


There are several features:


* text: bill text.
* summary: summary of the bills.
* title: title of the bills.
features for us bills. ca bills does not have.
* text\_len: number of chars in text.
* sum\_len: number of chars in summary. ### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards ### Languages


Dataset Structure
----------------- ### Data Instances #### default


* Size of downloaded dataset files: 67.26 MB
* Size of the generated dataset: 272.42 MB
* Total amount of disk used: 339.68 MB


An example of 'train' looks as follows. ### Data Fields


The data fields are the same among all splits. #### default


* 'text': a 'string' feature.
* 'summary': a 'string' feature.
* 'title': a 'string' feature. ### Data Splits



Dataset Creation
---------------- ### Curation Rationale ### Source Data #### Initial Data Collection and Normalization


The data consists of three parts: US training bills, US test bills and California test bills. The US bills were collected from the Govinfo service provided by the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO) under CC0-1.0 license. The California, bills from the 2015-2016 session are available from the legislature’s website. #### Who are the source language producers? ### Annotations #### Annotation process #### Who are the annotators? ### Personal and Sensitive Information


Considerations for Using the Data
--------------------------------- ### Social Impact of Dataset ### Discussion of Biases ### Other Known Limitations


Additional Information
---------------------- ### Dataset Curators ### Licensing Information ### Contributions


Thanks to @thomwolf, @jplu, @lewtun for adding this dataset.
passage: TAGS
#task_categories-summarization #annotations_creators-found #language_creators-found #multilinguality-monolingual #size_categories-10K<n<100K #source_datasets-original #language-English #license-cc0-1.0 #bills-summarization #arxiv-1910.00523 #region-us 
### Dataset Summary


BillSum, summarization of US Congressional and California state bills.


There are several features:


* text: bill text.
* summary: summary of the bills.
* title: title of the bills.
features for us bills. ca bills does not have.
* text\_len: number of chars in text.
* sum\_len: number of chars in summary.### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards### Languages


Dataset Structure
-----------------### Data Instances#### default


* Size of downloaded dataset files: 67.26 MB
* Size of the generated dataset: 272.42 MB
* Total amount of disk used: 339.68 MB


An example of 'train' looks as follows.### Data Fields


The data fields are the same among all splits.#### default


* 'text': a 'string' feature.
* 'summary': a 'string' feature.
* 'title': a 'string' feature.### Data Splits



Dataset Creation
----------------### Curation Rationale### Source Data#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization


The data consists of three parts: US training bills, US test bills and California test bills. The US bills were collected from the Govinfo service provided by the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO) under CC0-1.0 license. The California, bills from the 2015-2016 session are available from the legislature’s website.#### Who are the source language producers?### Annotations#### Annotation process#### Who are the annotators?### Personal and Sensitive Information


Considerations for Using the Data
---------------------------------### Social Impact of Dataset### Discussion of Biases### Other Known Limitations


Additional Information
----------------------### Dataset Curators