README.md

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annotations_creators:
  - no-annotation
language:
  - en
language_creators:
  - machine-generated
license:
  - cc0-1.0
multilinguality:
  - monolingual
pretty_name: Dataset Card for ERWT Hertiage Made Digital Newspapers training data
size_categories:
  - 100K<n<1M
source_datasets: []
tags:
  - library,lam,newspapers,1800-1900
task_categories:
  - fill-mask
task_ids:
  - masked-language-modeling

Dataset Card for ERWT Hertiage Made Digital Newspapers training data

Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• Dataset Description
  • Dataset Summary
  • Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
  • Languages
• Dataset Structure
  • Data Instances
  • Data Fields
  • Data Splits
• Dataset Creation
  • Curation Rationale
  • Source Data
  • Annotations
  • Personal and Sensitive Information
• Considerations for Using the Data
  • Social Impact of Dataset
  • Discussion of Biases
  • Other Known Limitations
• Additional Information
  • Dataset Curators
  • Licensing Information
  • Citation Information
  • Contributions

Dataset Description

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Dataset Summary

This dataset contains text extracted at the page level from historic digitised newspapers from the Heritage Made Digital newspaper digitisation program. The newspapers in the dataset were published between 1800 and 1870.

The data was primarily created as a dataset for training 'time-aware' language models.

The dataset contains text generated from Optical Character Recognition software on digitised newspaper pages. This dataset includes the plain text from the OCR alongside some minimal metadata associated with the newspaper from which the text is derived and OCR confidence score information generated from the OCR software.

Breakdown of word counts over time

Whilst the dataset covers a time period between 1800 and 1870, the number of words in the dataset is not distributed evenly across time in this dataset. The figures below give a sense of the breakdown over time in terms of the number of words which appear in the dataset.

year	total word_count	unique words
1800	282,554,255	15,506,515
1810	328,817,174	18,295,974
1820	328,817,174	18,295,974
1830	194,958,624	10,816,938
1840	305,545,086	17,018,560
1850	376,194,785	20,942,876
1860	305,545,086	17,018,560
1870	51,241,037	2,284,803

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

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Languages

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Dataset Structure

Data Instances

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Data Fields

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Data Splits

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Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

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Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

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Who are the source language producers?

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Annotations

Annotation process

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Personal and Sensitive Information

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Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

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Discussion of Biases

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Other Known Limitations

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Additional Information

Dataset Curators

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Licensing Information

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Citation Information

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Contributions

Thanks to @github-username for adding this dataset.