README.md

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# 🎙️ AMI-Refined: High-Fidelity Meeting Summarization Dataset

This repository contains a refined version of the **AMI Meeting Corpus**, specifically re-engineered for **Long-context Abstractive Speech Summarization**. Unlike existing fragmented ASR datasets, this version restores the continuous discourse flow and ensures strict alignment between audio and human-annotated summaries.

## 🛠️ Data Processing & Engineering (How we matched it)

To bridge the gap between fragmented ASR chunks and long-form summarization, we implemented a rigorous preprocessing pipeline:

### 1. Temporal Discourse Restoration

The original Hugging Face AMI dataset (e.g., `edinburghcstr/ami`) provides audio in short, shuffled segments. We restored the original meeting structure by:

* **Meeting-level Grouping:** Grouping 100k+ utterances by their unique `meeting_id`.
* **Time-sequential Sorting:** Sorting segments within each meeting based on the exact `begin_time` metadata to reconstruct the chronological conversation flow.
* **Physical Audio Reconstruction:** Concatenating validated audio arrays using `numpy` and exporting them as single, high-quality **WAV files (16kHz)** to prevent any frame decoding errors found in streaming versions.

### 2. Multi-stage Validation & Cleaning

We ensured 100% data integrity through a strict filtering process:

* **Audio Integrity Check:** Every audio chunk was pre-decoded to detect and exclude corrupted frames or empty arrays (`RuntimeError` prevention).
* **Textual Ground-Truth Alignment:** We matched each reassembled audio with **Gold-Standard Manual Annotations** (XML-based transcripts and abstractive summaries) from the AMI native metadata.
* **Scenario-only Selection:** We filtered for meetings that have verified human-written summaries (mostly `ES` and `TS` series), ensuring that the model is trained on professional-grade labels rather than noisy or synthetic ones.

### 3. Native Hugging Face Integration

The dataset is structured to be compatible with modern deep learning pipelines:

* **WAV-JSON Mapping:** Audio is stored as physical WAV files and indexed via JSON to ensure persistent paths.
* **Hugging Face `datasets` Feature:** The final `DatasetDict` uses the `datasets.Audio` feature, allowing for automatic resampling and seamless loading with `map()` functions.

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## 📂 Dataset Structure & Usage

### Data Fields

* `meeting_id`: Unique identifier for each meeting (e.g., `ES2002a`).
* `audio`: Audio feature containing the decoded array and sampling rate (16kHz).
* `summary`: Human-annotated abstractive summary (Ground Truth).
* `transcript`: Complete meeting transcript for context.
* `duration_sec`: Total duration of the meeting audio.

### How to Load

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

# Load the refined AMI dataset
dataset = load_dataset("eeoonn/ami-refined", use_auth_token=True)

# Audio is ready to use with librosa or transformers
example = dataset['train'][0]
print(example['summary'])

```

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## 🛡️ Reliability for Research (Defense against Reviewers)

When comparing this dataset to others used in recent research (like SQuBa):

1. **No Synthetic Bias:** All labels are 100% human-annotated, avoiding the "synthetic noise" issue in LLM-generated labels.
2. **Verified Alignment:** By sorting by `begin_time` and checking for corrupted frames, we guarantee that the audio signal and the transcript are perfectly synchronized.
3. **Long-form Context:** Our re-assembly provides a real-world long-context challenge (average duration: ~30 min), which is far more rigorous than evaluating on short audio clips.

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