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arxiv: 2604.07553 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-08 · 💻 cs.CL · cs.AI

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

Figen E\u{g}in , Aytu\u{g} Onan
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keywords Turkish educational video summarizationconsensus frameworkAutoMUPmeaning unit pyramidTR-EduVSum datasetgold-standard summaryhuman summary agreementLLM evaluation
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A new automatic method extracts reliable gold-standard summaries for Turkish educational videos by clustering consensus meaning units from multiple human annotations.

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The work creates the TR-EduVSum dataset covering 82 Turkish videos on data structures and algorithms along with 3281 independent human summaries. It introduces the AutoMUP framework that breaks those summaries into meaning units, groups the units by embedding similarity, and ranks them by how widely participants support each unit. The highest-consensus configuration is treated as the reproducible gold standard. Tests find strong semantic overlap between these AutoMUP summaries and outputs from strong language models, while ablation experiments show that consensus weighting and clustering steps are essential to the quality.

Core claim

AutoMUP generates gold-standard summaries by extracting meaning units from multiple human summaries of Turkish educational videos, clustering them with embeddings, statistically modeling agreement through consensus weights, and selecting the highest-consensus configuration as the reference summary, which exhibits high semantic overlap with robust LLM summaries.

What carries the argument

AutoMUP (Automatic Meaning Unit Pyramid), which extracts meaning units from human summaries, clusters them via embeddings, models inter-participant agreement with consensus weights, and assembles graded summaries from the most frequently supported units.

If this is right

  • Gold-standard summaries for educational video summarization can be produced fully automatically and reproducibly from sets of human annotations.
  • Summary quality is driven primarily by the consensus-weighting and clustering components rather than other modeling choices.
  • The same consensus extraction process can be applied at low cost to other Turkic languages for comparable educational content.
  • LLM-generated summaries can be evaluated or calibrated against these automatically derived consensus references.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Consensus frameworks of this type could lower the cost of building evaluation datasets in other summarization domains by replacing single-annotator gold standards.
  • Embedding similarity as a proxy for agreement could be tested on non-educational video content to check whether the same clustering produces stable references.
  • Iterative pipelines that feed AutoMUP consensus signals back into LLM summarizers might improve alignment with human preferences over time.

Load-bearing premise

Embedding-based clustering of meaning units from human summaries reliably captures genuine semantic agreement and that the highest-consensus version forms a valid gold standard.

What would settle it

A new collection of human summaries on similar Turkish educational videos where the resulting AutoMUP outputs show low semantic overlap with both additional human judgments and independent strong LLM summaries.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Distribution of mean SBERT similarity across [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_1.png] view at source ↗
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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.

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Referee Report

3 major / 3 minor

Summary. The manuscript introduces the TR-EduVSum dataset comprising 82 Turkish educational videos on Data Structures and Algorithms together with 3281 independent human summaries. It proposes the AutoMUP (Automatic Meaning Unit Pyramid) framework that extracts meaning units from the human summaries, clusters them via embeddings, statistically models inter-participant agreement, and produces graded summaries ordered by consensus weight; the highest-consensus configuration is designated the gold-standard summary. Experimental results are reported to show high semantic overlap between these AutoMUP summaries and outputs from strong LLMs (Flash 2.5, GPT-5.1), while ablation studies are said to establish the decisive contribution of consensus weighting and clustering to summary quality. The approach is presented as generalizable to other Turkic languages at low cost.

Significance. If the core assumption holds, TR-EduVSum and AutoMUP would supply a reproducible, low-cost pipeline for gold-standard construction in a low-resource language setting, directly addressing the scarcity of Turkish educational summarization resources. The dataset itself constitutes a concrete contribution, and the consensus-based aggregation offers a principled alternative to single-reference evaluation. Successful validation would also furnish evidence on the utility of embedding-driven clustering for multi-annotator agreement in educational content. The significance is conditional on demonstrating that the clustering step reliably identifies semantic equivalence rather than surface-level similarity.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The central experimental claim that 'AutoMUP summaries exhibit high semantic overlap with robust LLM summaries such as Flash 2.5 and GPT-5.1' is stated without any quantitative metrics (ROUGE, BERTScore, or equivalent), baseline systems, or description of the overlap measurement procedure. This absence prevents verification of the reported results and directly undermines assessment of the framework's effectiveness.
  2. [AutoMUP method] AutoMUP method description: The designation of the highest-consensus configuration as the gold-standard summary rests on the assumption that embedding-based clustering of meaning units extracted from the 3281 human summaries reliably groups semantically equivalent content. No validation of this step (human cluster-quality judgments, inter-annotator agreement on meaning-unit alignment, or comparison against manually constructed references) is provided, rendering both the overlap results and the ablation conclusions dependent on an untested premise.
  3. [Ablation studies] Ablation studies: The statement that ablations 'clearly demonstrate the decisive role of consensus weight and clustering' lacks detail on the quality metric used in the ablations, the range of configurations tested, and any statistical tests or control conditions (e.g., majority vote without embeddings). Without these elements the ablation results cannot be evaluated as supporting evidence.
minor comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] The generalization claim to other Turkic languages would be strengthened by a short discussion of embedding-model availability and potential linguistic divergences that could affect clustering performance.
  2. [Method] Provide explicit details on the embedding model, clustering algorithm, and statistical agreement model employed in AutoMUP to support reproducibility.
  3. [Dataset] Include participant demographics and video-selection criteria for the 3281 summaries to allow readers to assess potential biases in the human annotations.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback, which highlights important areas for improving the clarity and rigor of our presentation. We address each major comment below and commit to revisions that strengthen the manuscript without altering its core contributions.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The central experimental claim that 'AutoMUP summaries exhibit high semantic overlap with robust LLM summaries such as Flash 2.5 and GPT-5.1' is stated without any quantitative metrics (ROUGE, BERTScore, or equivalent), baseline systems, or description of the overlap measurement procedure. This absence prevents verification of the reported results and directly undermines assessment of the framework's effectiveness.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract would be strengthened by including quantitative support for the overlap claim. The full experimental section reports ROUGE and BERTScore scores comparing AutoMUP summaries to the LLM outputs (Flash 2.5 and GPT-5.1), along with the evaluation procedure using standard libraries. In the revised version, we will update the abstract to explicitly state key metrics (e.g., average ROUGE-1/2/L F1 and BERTScore) and briefly note the measurement approach, enabling readers to assess the results directly. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [AutoMUP method] AutoMUP method description: The designation of the highest-consensus configuration as the gold-standard summary rests on the assumption that embedding-based clustering of meaning units extracted from the 3281 human summaries reliably groups semantically equivalent content. No validation of this step (human cluster-quality judgments, inter-annotator agreement on meaning-unit alignment, or comparison against manually constructed references) is provided, rendering both the overlap results and the ablation conclusions dependent on an untested premise.

    Authors: We acknowledge that explicit validation of the clustering step would increase confidence in the semantic equivalence assumption. Our current justification rests on the documented performance of multilingual embeddings for capturing meaning in educational text and the downstream statistical agreement modeling. To address this, the revised manuscript will include a new validation subsection: we will report results from manual inspection of a random sample of clusters (with inter-annotator agreement on equivalence judgments) and compare cluster-derived summaries against a small set of manually aligned references. This will be presented as supporting evidence rather than a full proof, and we will discuss limitations of embedding-based approaches. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Ablation studies] Ablation studies: The statement that ablations 'clearly demonstrate the decisive role of consensus weight and clustering' lacks detail on the quality metric used in the ablations, the range of configurations tested, and any statistical tests or control conditions (e.g., majority vote without embeddings). Without these elements the ablation results cannot be evaluated as supporting evidence.

    Authors: We agree that additional detail is needed for the ablation studies to be fully evaluable. The experiments use ROUGE and BERTScore as quality metrics, comparing the full AutoMUP pipeline against variants that remove consensus weighting or the embedding clustering step. In the revision, we will expand this section to list all tested configurations, report per-configuration metric values with standard deviations, include statistical significance tests (e.g., paired t-tests against the full model), and add a simple majority-vote baseline without embeddings as a control. These changes will make the evidence for the contribution of each component explicit. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; gold-standard construction is data-driven from independent human summaries

full rationale

The paper defines AutoMUP as a procedure that extracts meaning units from 3281 independent human summaries, clusters them via external embeddings, models inter-participant agreement, and selects the highest-consensus configuration as the gold standard. This construction is explicitly built from external human input data and does not contain any equation or self-referential step that makes the output equivalent to a fitted parameter or prior claim by definition. Experimental overlap metrics with LLM summaries and ablation studies on consensus weight/clustering are downstream evaluations that do not loop back to redefine the inputs. No self-citations, uniqueness theorems, or ansatzes are invoked in a load-bearing way within the provided text. The method remains self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

Based on abstract only: relies on embedding similarity for clustering and statistical agreement modeling; no free parameters or invented entities explicitly stated.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Embedding models accurately capture semantic similarity between meaning units extracted from human summaries
    Invoked in the clustering step of AutoMUP

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