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Dataset Card for "newsgroup"
Table of Contents
- Dataset Description
- Dataset Structure
- Dataset Creation
- Considerations for Using the Data
- Additional Information
Dataset Description
- Homepage: http://qwone.com/~jason/20Newsgroups/
- Repository: More Information Needed
- Paper: More Information Needed
- Point of Contact: More Information Needed
- Size of downloaded dataset files: 886.22 MB
- Size of the generated dataset: 118.65 MB
- Total amount of disk used: 1004.87 MB
Dataset Summary
The 20 Newsgroups data set is a collection of approximately 20,000 newsgroup documents, partitioned (nearly) evenly across 20 different newsgroups. To the best of my knowledge, it was originally collected by Ken Lang, probably for his Newsweeder: Learning to filter netnews paper, though he does not explicitly mention this collection. The 20 newsgroups collection has become a popular data set for experiments in text applications of machine learning techniques, such as text classification and text clustering.
does not include cross-posts and includes only the "From" and "Subject" headers.
Supported Tasks
Languages
Dataset Structure
We show detailed information for up to 5 configurations of the dataset.
Data Instances
18828_alt.atheism
- Size of downloaded dataset files: 13.99 MB
- Size of the generated dataset: 1.59 MB
- Total amount of disk used: 15.58 MB
An example of 'train' looks as follows.
18828_comp.graphics
- Size of downloaded dataset files: 13.99 MB
- Size of the generated dataset: 1.58 MB
- Total amount of disk used: 15.57 MB
An example of 'train' looks as follows.
18828_comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Size of downloaded dataset files: 13.99 MB
- Size of the generated dataset: 2.27 MB
- Total amount of disk used: 16.26 MB
An example of 'train' looks as follows.
18828_comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Size of downloaded dataset files: 13.99 MB
- Size of the generated dataset: 1.13 MB
- Total amount of disk used: 15.12 MB
An example of 'train' looks as follows.
18828_comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Size of downloaded dataset files: 13.99 MB
- Size of the generated dataset: 1.01 MB
- Total amount of disk used: 15.00 MB
An example of 'train' looks as follows.
Data Fields
The data fields are the same among all splits.
18828_alt.atheism
text: astringfeature.
18828_comp.graphics
text: astringfeature.
18828_comp.os.ms-windows.misc
text: astringfeature.
18828_comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
text: astringfeature.
18828_comp.sys.mac.hardware
text: astringfeature.
Data Splits Sample Size
| name | train |
|---|---|
| 18828_alt.atheism | 799 |
| 18828_comp.graphics | 973 |
| 18828_comp.os.ms-windows.misc | 985 |
| 18828_comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | 982 |
| 18828_comp.sys.mac.hardware | 961 |
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
Thanks to @mariamabarham, @thomwolf, @lhoestq for adding this dataset.