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README.md

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ pretty_name: GovReport
 - [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents)
 - [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
   - [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
+  - [Versions](#versions)
   - [Supported Tasks and Leaderboards](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
   - [Languages](#languages)
 - [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
@@ -62,6 +63,13 @@ Government report dataset consists of reports and associated summaries written b
 
 Compared with other long document summarization datasets, government report dataset has longer summaries and documents and requires reading in more context to cover salient words to be summarized.
 
+### Versions
+
+- `1.0.1` (default): remove extra whitespace.
+- `1.0.0`: the dataset used in the original paper.
+
+To use different versions, set the `revision` argument of the `load_dataset` function.
+
 ### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
 
 [More Information Needed]

gov_report.py

@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@ def _recursive_load(section, keep_letter=False, depth=0):
     sections = []
     if section["section_title"] != "Letter" or (section["section_title"] == "Letter" and keep_letter):
         sections.append({
-            "title": section["section_title"].strip(),
-            "paragraphs": "\n".join(section["paragraphs"]),
+            "title": " ".join(section["section_title"].strip().split()),
+            "paragraphs": "\n".join([" ".join(paragraph.strip().split()) for paragraph in section["paragraphs"]]),
             "depth": depth
         })
         for subsection in section["subsections"]:
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ class GovReportConfig(datasets.BuilderConfig):
 
 
 class GovReport(datasets.GeneratorBasedBuilder):
-    VERSION = datasets.Version("1.0.0")
+    VERSION = datasets.Version("1.0.1")
 
     DEFAULT_CONFIG_NAME = "plain_text"