annotations_creators:
- other
language_creators:
- other
languages:
- en
licenses:
- mit
multilinguality:
- monolingual
pretty_name: tldr_news
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- summarization
- text2text-generation
- text-generation
task_ids:
- news-articles-headline-generation
- text-simplification
- language-modeling
Dataset Card for tldr_news
Table of Contents
- Dataset Description
- Dataset Structure
- Dataset Creation
- Considerations for Using the Data
- Additional Information
Dataset Description
- Homepage: https://tldr.tech/newsletter
Dataset Summary
The tldr_news dataset was constructed by collecting a daily tech newsletter (available
here). Then, for every piece of news, the headline and its corresponding content were extracted.
Such a dataset can be used to train a model to generate a headline from a input piece of text.
Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
There is no official supported tasks nor leaderboard for this dataset. However, it could be used for the following tasks:
- summarization
- headline generation
Languages
en
Dataset Structure
Data Instances
A data point comprises a "headline" and its corresponding "content". An example is as follows:
{
"headline": "World-first 'impossible' rotating detonation engine fires up",
"content": "A team in Florida working with the US Air Force has built an experimental model of a rotating detonation rocket engine. It uses spinning explosions inside a ring channel to create a super-efficient thrust. Most engines use combustion, which is a relatively slow and controlled process compared to detonation. Detonation releases significantly more energy than combustion with significantly less fuel, but detonation engines have proven to be incredibly difficult to build and sustain. A 20-second slow-motion video of the rocket firing is available."
}
Data Fields
headline (str): the piece of news' headlinecontent (str): the piece of news
Data Splits
all: all existing daily newsletters available here.
Dataset Creation
Curation Rationale
This dataset was obtained by scrapping the collecting all the existing newsletter available here.
Every single newsletter was then processed to extract all the different pieces of news. Then for every collected piece of news the headline and the news content were extracted.
Source Data
Initial Data Collection and Normalization
The dataset was has been collected from https://tldr.tech/newsletter.
In order to clean up the samples and to construct a dataset better suited for headline generation we have applied a couple of normalization steps:
- The headlines initially contain an estimated read time in parentheses; we stripped this information from the headline.
- Some headlines are just a technology/repo/software name. We filtered out such samples if this name was not mention in the news content.
Who are the source language producers?
The people (or person) behind the https://tldr.tech/ newsletter.
Annotations
Annotation process
Disclaimers: The dataset was generated from a daily newsletter. The author had no intention for those newsletters to be used as such.
Who are the annotators?
The newsletters were written by the people behind TLDR tech.
Personal and Sensitive Information
[Needs More Information]
Considerations for Using the Data
Social Impact of Dataset
[Needs More Information]
Discussion of Biases
This dataset only contains tech news. A model trained on such a dataset might not be able to generalize to other domain.
Other Known Limitations
[Needs More Information]
Additional Information
Dataset Curators
The dataset was obtained by collecting newsletters from this website: https://tldr.tech/newsletter
Contributions
Thanks to @JulesBelveze for adding this dataset.