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+**The Icelandic Gigaword Corpus** (IGC-2022)[1] is a diverse collection of Icelandic texts from 9 individual corpora. Each is available as raw text placed in \<p\> tags and as processed text with tokenization, POS tags, and lemmatization.
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+**Dataset Description**
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+This dataset was created for Icelandic text classification from the IGC-2022 corpus. XML files were parsed. The books category, which contains the fewest total tokens (~ 14 million), was selected as a benchmark. The news category, having the lowest average token count per entry (~ 250 tokens), was chosen as another benchmark. Entries from books, journals, and law were segmented into chunks of approximately 250 tokens each, without splitting sentences:
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+[Books (unannotated)](https://repository.clarin.is/repository/xmlui/handle/20.500.12537/316) (**Label 0**): Contains texts from books that have been published in Iceland; **56,788 entries**.
+[Journals (unannotated)](https://repository.clarin.is/repository/xmlui/handle/20.500.12537/245) (**Label 1**): Contains texts from scientific and scholarly journals or websites publishing scientific or scholarly articles; **57,728 entries**.
+[News (unannotated)](https://repository.clarin.is/repository/xmlui/handle/20.500.12537/236) (**Label 2**): Contains texts from news media, online and written as well as some from TV and radio; **58,451 entries**.
+[Law (unannotated)](https://repository.clarin.is/repository/xmlui/handle/20.500.12537/247) (**Label 3**): Contains texts from Icelandic legislative and legal documents; **54,376 entries**.
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+[1]: Barkarson, Starkaður; et al., 2022, Icelandic Gigaword Corpus (IGC-2022) - unannotated version, CLARIN-IS, http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12537/253.