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dataset_info: |
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features: |
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- name: meeting_id |
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dtype: string |
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- name: sampling_rate |
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dtype: int64 |
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- name: summary |
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dtype: string |
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- name: transcript |
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dtype: string |
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- name: duration_sec |
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dtype: float64 |
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- name: audio |
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dtype: |
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audio: |
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sampling_rate: 16000 |
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splits: |
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- name: train |
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num_bytes: 6527142721 |
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num_examples: 115 |
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- name: validation |
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num_bytes: 842101467 |
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num_examples: 15 |
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- name: test |
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num_bytes: 655024365 |
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num_examples: 12 |
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download_size: 7558908182 |
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dataset_size: 8024268553 |
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configs: |
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- config_name: default |
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data_files: |
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- split: train |
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path: data/train-* |
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- split: validation |
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path: data/validation-* |
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- split: test |
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path: data/test-* |
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# 🎙️ AMI-Refined: High-Fidelity Meeting Summarization Dataset |
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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. |
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## 🛠️ Data Processing & Engineering (How we matched it) |
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To bridge the gap between fragmented ASR chunks and long-form summarization, we implemented a rigorous preprocessing pipeline: |
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### 1. Temporal Discourse Restoration |
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The original Hugging Face AMI dataset (e.g., `edinburghcstr/ami`) provides audio in short, shuffled segments. We restored the original meeting structure by: |
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* **Meeting-level Grouping:** Grouping 100k+ utterances by their unique `meeting_id`. |
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* **Time-sequential Sorting:** Sorting segments within each meeting based on the exact `begin_time` metadata to reconstruct the chronological conversation flow. |
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* **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. |
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### 2. Multi-stage Validation & Cleaning |
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We ensured 100% data integrity through a strict filtering process: |
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* **Audio Integrity Check:** Every audio chunk was pre-decoded to detect and exclude corrupted frames or empty arrays (`RuntimeError` prevention). |
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* **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. |
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* **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. |
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### 3. Native Hugging Face Integration |
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The dataset is structured to be compatible with modern deep learning pipelines: |
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* **WAV-JSON Mapping:** Audio is stored as physical WAV files and indexed via JSON to ensure persistent paths. |
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* **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 |
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### Data Fields |
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* `meeting_id`: Unique identifier for each meeting (e.g., `ES2002a`). |
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* `audio`: Audio feature containing the decoded array and sampling rate (16kHz). |
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* `summary`: Human-annotated abstractive summary (Ground Truth). |
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* `transcript`: Complete meeting transcript for context. |
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* `duration_sec`: Total duration of the meeting audio. |
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### How to Load |
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```python |
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from datasets import load_dataset |
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# Load the refined AMI dataset |
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dataset = load_dataset("eeoonn/ami-refined", use_auth_token=True) |
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# Audio is ready to use with librosa or transformers |
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example = dataset['train'][0] |
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print(example['summary']) |
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``` |
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## 🛡️ Reliability for Research (Defense against Reviewers) |
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When comparing this dataset to others used in recent research (like SQuBa): |
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1. **No Synthetic Bias:** All labels are 100% human-annotated, avoiding the "synthetic noise" issue in LLM-generated labels. |
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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. |
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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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