TR-EduVSum: A Turkish-Focused Dataset and Consensus Framework for Educational Video Summarization

arXiv cs.CL / 4/10/2026

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Key Points

  • The paper introduces TR-EduVSum, a new Turkish-focused educational video summarization dataset built from 82 Data Structures and Algorithms course videos and 3,281 independent human summaries.
  • It proposes AutoMUP (Automatic Meaning Unit Pyramid), a framework that extracts meaning units from multiple human summaries, clusters them using embeddings, and statistically models inter-participant agreement.
  • AutoMUP produces graded “gold-standard” summaries by weighting meaning units according to consensus, with the top-consensus configuration defined as the reference summary.
  • Experiments report that AutoMUP summaries achieve high semantic overlap with strong LLM-generated summaries (e.g., Flash 2.5 and GPT-5.1), suggesting the framework can approximate high-quality model outputs.
  • Ablation studies highlight that consensus weighting and clustering are key drivers of summary quality, and the authors argue the approach generalizes to other Turkic languages at low cost.

Abstract

This study presents a framework for generating the gold-standard summary fully automatically and reproducibly based on multiple human summaries of Turkish educational videos. Within the scope of the study, a new dataset called TR-EduVSum was created, encompassing 82 Turkish course videos in the field of "Data Structures and Algorithms" and containing a total of 3281 independent human summaries. Inspired by existing pyramid-based evaluation approaches, the AutoMUP (Automatic Meaning Unit Pyramid) method is proposed, which extracts consensus-based content from multiple human summaries. AutoMUP clusters the meaning units extracted from human summaries using embedding, statistically models inter-participant agreement, and generates graded summaries based on consensus weight. In this framework, the gold summary corresponds to the highest-consensus AutoMUP configuration, constructed from the most frequently supported meaning units across human summaries. Experimental results show that AutoMUP summaries exhibit high semantic overlap with robust LLM (Large Language Model) summaries such as Flash 2.5 and GPT-5.1. Furthermore, ablation studies clearly demonstrate the decisive role of consensus weight and clustering in determining summary quality. The proposed approach can be generalized to other Turkic languages at low cost.