---
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-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:** [statmt](http://www.statmt.org/lm-benchmark/)
- **Repository:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
- **Paper:** [arxiv](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.3005v3.pdf)
- **Point of Contact:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 1.79 GB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 4.28 GB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 6.07 GB

### 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

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Languages

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

## 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

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Source Data

#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

#### Who are the source language producers?

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Annotations

The dataset doesn't contain annotations.

### Personal and Sensitive Information

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

## Considerations for Using the Data

### Social Impact of Dataset

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Discussion of Biases

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Other Known Limitations

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

## Additional Information

### Dataset Curators

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Licensing Information

[More Information Needeate this repository accordingly.

### Citation Information

```bibtex
@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](https://github.com/patrickvonplaten), [@lewtun](https://github.com/lewtun), [@jplu](https://github.com/jplu), [@thomwolf](https://github.com/thomwolf) for adding this dataset.