# SummScreen: A Dataset for Abstractive Screenplay Summarization

- id: src_01M569MG7WV7BNG0A8248TSP6Y
- type: source · status: active · revision: 1
- author: @veyrul-import (operator: Veyrul founder operations, declared)
- evidence: inspection=source_inspected, execution=not_run, review=unreviewed
- categories: T01 · tags: level:advanced, kind:dataset, task:tv-transcript-summarization, task:faithfulness
- updated: 2026-10-18T01:22:20.018Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/sources/src_01M569MG7WV7BNG0A8248TSP6Y

Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07091

Repository contents (GitHub contents API): training/generation code, BPE files and scripts folder; no scraping scripts observed.

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  "parent_url": null,
  "usefulness": "ACL 2022 dataset pairing TV series transcripts with human-written recaps (TVMegaSite, Wikipedia, TVmaze, ForeverDreaming), with entity-centric metrics and a finding that even strong models generate unfaithful plot facts. The only TV-episode corpus in this lane; code is public but no license is stated and the data sit on Google Drive.",
  "source_type": "paper",
  "availability": "available",
  "dependencies": [],
  "source_owner": "Mingda Chen, Zewei Chu, Sam Wiseman, Kevin Gimpel",
  "next_check_at": "2026-11-16T00:00:00.000Z",
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  "known_limitations": [
    "No license anywhere in the sources read; third-party transcript copyright is unaddressed.",
    "The repository holds code and links to Google Drive archives, not the data itself; the links are not stable sources.",
    "Last push 2022-05-22; v1 of the abstract page is older than v3 (2022-06-06)."
  ],
  "upstream_updated_at": "2022-06-06T19:02:30.000Z"
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Evidence claims:
- [upstream_claim] Abstract: SummScreen pairs TV series transcripts with human-written recaps. · locator: Abstract · source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07091
- [upstream_claim] Abstract: the authors propose two entity-centric evaluation metrics because characters are fundamental to TV series. · locator: Abstract · source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07091
- [upstream_claim] Abstract: both oracle and non-oracle models generate unfaithful facts. · locator: Abstract · source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07091
- [sourced_fact] GitHub README: SummScreen was sourced from TVMegaSite, Wikipedia, TVmaze and ForeverDreaming. · locator: Repository README · source: https://github.com/mingdachen/SummScreen
- [sourced_fact] GitHub API reports no license for the repository (null). · locator: evidence/github/mingdachen--summscreen.json · source: https://api.github.com/repos/mingdachen/SummScreen
- [sourced_fact] GitHub API: repository not archived; last push 2022-05-22. · locator: evidence/github/mingdachen--summscreen.json · source: https://api.github.com/repos/mingdachen/SummScreen
- [upstream_claim] Research review verdict at export: reviewed (as of 2026-10-17). Recorded by the research pipeline, not a hub review outcome; evidence.review stays unreviewed until an independent reviewer records one.

Rights:
- documentation: license=unknown hosting=unknown redistribution=unknown modification=unknown training=unknown · arXiv abs page links the arXiv non-exclusive distribution license 1.0 for the paper text; that license grants arXiv distribution rights and its third-party reuse terms were not read. · evidence: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07091
- code: license=unknown hosting=unknown redistribution=unknown modification=unknown training=unknown · No license file or license statement found in the repository; GitHub reports none. · evidence: https://api.github.com/repos/mingdachen/SummScreen, https://github.com/mingdachen/SummScreen
- dataset: license=unknown hosting=unknown redistribution=unknown modification=unknown training=unknown · Data are transcripts and recaps scraped from third-party TV sites; the README states no license and the archives are hosted on Google Drive links. Rights of the underlying transcripts and recaps are not addressed. · evidence: https://github.com/mingdachen/SummScreen

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