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pretty_name: One Billion Word Language Model Benchmark
paperswithcode_id: billion-word-benchmark
dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: text
      dtype: string
  config_name: plain_text
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_bytes: 4238206516
      num_examples: 30301028
    - name: test
      num_bytes: 42942045
      num_examples: 306688
  download_size: 1792209805
  dataset_size: 4281148561
task_categories:
  - text-generation
  - fill-mask
task_ids:
  - language-modeling
  - masked-language-modeling
language:
  - en

Dataset Card for One Billion Word Language Model Benchmark

Table of Contents

Dataset Description

Dataset Summary

A benchmark corpus to be used for measuring progress in statistical language modeling. This has almost one billion words in the training data.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

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Languages

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Dataset Structure

Data Instances

plain_text

  • Size of downloaded dataset files: 1.79 GB
  • Size of the generated dataset: 4.28 GB
  • Total amount of disk used: 6.07 GB

An example of 'train' looks as follows.

This example was too long and was cropped:

{
    "text": "While athletes in different professions dealt with doping scandals and other controversies , Woods continued to do what he did best : dominate the field of professional golf and rake in endorsements ."
}

Data Fields

The data fields are the same among all splits.

plain_text

  • text: a string feature.

Data Splits

name train test
plain_text 30301028 306688

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

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Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

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Who are the source language producers?

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Annotations

The dataset doesn't contain annotations.

Personal and Sensitive Information

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Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

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Discussion of Biases

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Other Known Limitations

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Additional Information

Dataset Curators

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Licensing Information

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Citation Information

@misc{chelba2014billion,
      title={One Billion Word Benchmark for Measuring Progress in Statistical Language Modeling}, 
      author={Ciprian Chelba and Tomas Mikolov and Mike Schuster and Qi Ge and Thorsten Brants and Phillipp Koehn and Tony Robinson},
      year={2014},
      eprint={1312.3005},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}

Contributions

Thanks to @patrickvonplaten, @lewtun, @jplu, @thomwolf for adding this dataset.