# BBC News Topic Dataset

Dataset on [BBC News Topic Classification](https://www.kaggle.com/yufengdev/bbc-text-categorization/data) consisting of 2,225 articles published on the BBC News website corresponding during 2004-2005. Each article is labeled under one of 5 categories: business, entertainment, politics, sport or tech.

Original source for this dataset:

- Derek Greene, Pádraig Cunningham, “Practical Solutions to the Problem of Diagonal Dominance in Kernel Document Clustering,” in Proc. 23rd International Conference on Machine learning (ICML’06), 2006 

[Raw dataset](http://mlg.ucd.ie/datasets/bbc.html) - [Paper PDF](http://derekgreene.com/papers/greene06icml.pdf)

All rights, including copyright, in the content of the original articles are owned by the BBC.