Datasets:

Languages:
English
Multilinguality:
monolingual
Size Categories:
10K<n<100K
Language Creators:
found
Annotations Creators:
no-annotation
Source Datasets:
original
Tags:
License:
enwik8 / README.md
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---
annotations_creators:
- no-annotation
language_creators:
- found
language:
- en
license:
- mit
multilinguality:
- monolingual
pretty_name: enwik8
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- fill-mask
- text-generation
task_ids:
- language-modeling
- masked-language-modeling
dataset_info:
- config_name: enwik8
features:
- name: text
dtype: string
splits:
- name: train
num_bytes: 104299244
num_examples: 1128024
download_size: 36445475
dataset_size: 102383126
- config_name: enwik8-raw
features:
- name: text
dtype: string
splits:
- name: train
num_bytes: 100000008
num_examples: 1
download_size: 36445475
dataset_size: 100000008
---
# Dataset Card for enwik8
## Table of Contents
- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
- [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
- [Supported Tasks](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
- [Languages](#languages)
- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
- [Data Instances](#data-instances)
- [Data Fields](#data-instances)
- [Data Splits](#data-instances)
- [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)
## Dataset Description
- **Homepage:** http://mattmahoney.net/dc/textdata.html
- **Repository:** [Needs More Information]
- **Paper:** [Needs More Information]
- **Leaderboard:** https://paperswithcode.com/sota/language-modelling-on-enwiki8
- **Point of Contact:** [Needs More Information]
- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 36.45 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 102.38 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 138.83 MB
### Dataset Summary
The enwik8 dataset is the first 100,000,000 (100M) bytes of the English Wikipedia XML dump on Mar. 3, 2006 and is typically used to measure a model's ability to compress data.
### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
A leaderboard for byte-level causal language modelling can be found on [paperswithcode](https://paperswithcode.com/sota/language-modelling-on-enwiki8)
### Languages
en
## Dataset Structure
### Data Instances
- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 36.45 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 102.38 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 138.83 MB
```
{
"text": "In [[Denmark]], the [[Freetown Christiania]] was created in downtown [[Copenhagen]]....",
}
```
### Data Fields
The data fields are the same among all sets.
#### enwik8
- `text`: a `string` feature.
#### enwik8-raw
- `text`: a `string` feature.
### Data Splits
| dataset | train |
| --- | --- |
| enwik8 | 1128024 |
| enwik8- raw | 1 |
## Dataset Creation
### Curation Rationale
[Needs More Information]
### Source Data
#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization
The data is just English Wikipedia XML dump on Mar. 3, 2006 split by line for enwik8 and not split by line for enwik8-raw.
#### Who are the source language producers?
[Needs More Information]
### Annotations
#### Annotation process
[Needs More Information]
#### Who are the annotators?
[Needs More Information]
### Personal and Sensitive Information
[Needs More Information]
## Considerations for Using the Data
### Social Impact of Dataset
[Needs More Information]
### Discussion of Biases
[Needs More Information]
### Other Known Limitations
[Needs More Information]
## Additional Information
### Dataset Curators
[Needs More Information]
### Licensing Information
[Needs More Information]
### Citation Information
Dataset is not part of a publication, and can therefore not be cited.
### Contributions
Thanks to [@HallerPatrick](https://github.com/HallerPatrick) for adding this dataset and [@mtanghu](https://github.com/mtanghu) for updating it.