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- no-annotation
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languages:
- ca
licenses:
- cc-by-sa-3.0
multilinguality:
- monolingual
size_categories:
- 10M<n<100M
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- text-generation
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paperswithcode_id: cawac
pretty_name: caWaC
---

# Dataset Card for caWaC

## Table of Contents
- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
  - [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
  - [Supported Tasks and Leaderboards](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
  - [Languages](#languages)
- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
  - [Data Instances](#data-instances)
  - [Data Fields](#data-fields)
  - [Data Splits](#data-splits)
- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)
  - [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale)
  - [Source Data](#source-data)
  - [Annotations](#annotations)
  - [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information)
- [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data)
  - [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset)
  - [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases)
  - [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations)
- [Additional Information](#additional-information)
  - [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators)
  - [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)
  - [Citation Information](#citation-information)
  - [Contributions](#contributions)

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage:** http://nlp.ffzg.hr/resources/corpora/cawac/
- **Repository:** http://nlp.ffzg.hr/data/corpora/cawac.uniq.sortr.gz
- **Paper:** http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/841_Paper.pdf
- **Leaderboard:**
- **Point of Contact:** [Nikola Ljubešič](mailto:nikola.ljubesic@ffzg.hr)

### Dataset Summary

caWaC is a 780-million-token web corpus of Catalan built from the .cat top-level-domain in late 2013.

### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

[More Information Needed]

### Languages

Dataset is monolingual in Catalan language.

## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

[More Information Needed]

### Data Fields

[More Information Needed]

### Data Splits

[More Information Needed]

## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

[More Information Needed]

### Source Data

#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

[More Information Needed]

#### Who are the source language producers?

[More Information Needed]

### Annotations

#### Annotation process

[More Information Needed]

#### Who are the annotators?

[More Information Needed]

### Personal and Sensitive Information

[More Information Needed]

## Considerations for Using the Data

### Social Impact of Dataset

[More Information Needed]

### Discussion of Biases

[More Information Needed]

### Other Known Limitations

[More Information Needed]

## Additional Information

### Dataset Curators

[More Information Needed]

### Licensing Information

Dataset is under the [CC-BY-SA 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) license.

### Citation Information

```
@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/lrec/LjubesicT14,
  author    = {Nikola Ljubesic and
               Antonio Toral},
  editor    = {Nicoletta Calzolari and
               Khalid Choukri and
               Thierry Declerck and
               Hrafn Loftsson and
               Bente Maegaard and
               Joseph Mariani and
               Asunci{\'{o}}n Moreno and
               Jan Odijk and
               Stelios Piperidis},
  title     = {caWaC - {A} web corpus of Catalan and its application to language
               modeling and machine translation},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources
               and Evaluation, {LREC} 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland, May 26-31, 2014},
  pages     = {1728--1732},
  publisher = {European Language Resources Association {(ELRA)}},
  year      = {2014},
  url       = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/summaries/841.html},
  timestamp = {Mon, 19 Aug 2019 15:23:35 +0200},
  biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/lrec/LjubesicT14.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}
```

### Contributions

Thanks to [@albertvillanova](https://github.com/albertvillanova) for adding this dataset.