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# FinBen · ECTSum

📄 [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12659) · 💻 [Code](https://github.com/The-FinAI/FinBen) · 🏆 [Leaderboard](https://huggingface.co/spaces/TheFinAI/Open-FinLLM-Leaderboard) · 🌐 [The Fin AI](https://thefin.ai)

> Part of **FinBen** — *FinBen: A Holistic Financial Benchmark for Large Language Models* ([arXiv:2402.12659](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12659)).

| | |
|---|---|
| Task | text summarization |
| Original dataset | ECTSum (Mukherjee et al., 2022) |
| Evaluation metric | ROUGE, BERTScore, BARTScore |
| Source license | Public |
| Language | en |

## Quick Start

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("TheFinAI/en-ectsum", split="test")
print(ds[0])
```

## Example prompt

```text
Given the following article, please produce a list of 0s and 1s, each separated by '
' to indicate which sentences should be included in the final summary. The article's sentences have been split by '
'. Please mark each sentence with 1 if it should be included in the summary and 0 if it should not.
Text: During hearings spring [Phonetic] resulted in Rhode Island Coastal Resource Management Counci…
```

## Dataset Structure

| Split | Rows |
|---|---|
| `test` | 495 |

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `id` | Example id |
| `query` | Full instruction prompt given to the model |
| `answer` | Gold answer / label text |
| `label` | Gold label(s) |
| `text` | Raw input text (without instruction) |

## License

The paper lists the original data as **publicly available** without a specific license (FinBen paper, Table 2); refer to the original source for its terms.

## Citation

Please cite FinBen and the original dataset (ECTSum (Mukherjee et al., 2022)):

```bibtex
@misc{xie2024finbenholisticfinancialbenchmark,
      title={FinBen: A Holistic Financial Benchmark for Large Language Models},
      author={Qianqian Xie and Weiguang Han and Zhengyu Chen and Ruoyu Xiang and Xiao Zhang and Yueru He and Mengxi Xiao and Dong Li and Yongfu Dai and Duanyu Feng and Yijing Xu and Haoqiang Kang and Ziyan Kuang and Chenhan Yuan and Kailai Yang and Zheheng Luo and Tianlin Zhang and Zhiwei Liu and Guojun Xiong and Zhiyang Deng and Yuechen Jiang and Zhiyuan Yao and Haohang Li and Yangyang Yu and Gang Hu and Jiajia Huang and Xiao-Yang Liu and Alejandro Lopez-Lira and Benyou Wang and Yanzhao Lai and Hao Wang and Min Peng and Sophia Ananiadou and Jimin Huang},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2402.12659},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12659},
}
```