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annotations_creators:
- found
language:
- en
language_creators:
- found
license:
- unknown
multilinguality:
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pretty_name: 20 Newsgroups
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paperswithcode_id: 20-newsgroups
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---
# Dataset Card for "newsgroup"
## 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:** [http://qwone.com/~jason/20Newsgroups/](http://qwone.com/~jason/20Newsgroups/)
- **Repository:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
- **Paper:** [NewsWeeder: Learning to Filter Netnews](https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-1-55860-377-6.50048-7)
- **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:** 929.27 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 124.41 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 1.05 GB
### 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 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
#### 18828_alt.atheism
- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 14.67 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 1.67 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 16.34 MB
An example of 'train' looks as follows.
```
```
#### 18828_comp.graphics
- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 14.67 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 1.66 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 16.33 MB
An example of 'train' looks as follows.
```
```
#### 18828_comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 14.67 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 2.38 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 17.05 MB
An example of 'train' looks as follows.
```
```
#### 18828_comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 14.67 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 1.18 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 15.85 MB
An example of 'train' looks as follows.
```
```
#### 18828_comp.sys.mac.hardware
- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 14.67 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 1.06 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 15.73 MB
An example of 'train' looks as follows.
```
```
### Data Fields
The data fields are the same among all splits.
#### 18828_alt.atheism
- `text`: a `string` feature.
#### 18828_comp.graphics
- `text`: a `string` feature.
#### 18828_comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- `text`: a `string` feature.
#### 18828_comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- `text`: a `string` feature.
#### 18828_comp.sys.mac.hardware
- `text`: a `string` feature.
### Data Splits
| 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
[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
#### Annotation process
[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
#### Who are the annotators?
[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
### 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 Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
### Citation Information
```
@incollection{LANG1995331,
title = {NewsWeeder: Learning to Filter Netnews},
editor = {Armand Prieditis and Stuart Russell},
booktitle = {Machine Learning Proceedings 1995},
publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
address = {San Francisco (CA)},
pages = {331-339},
year = {1995},
isbn = {978-1-55860-377-6},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-1-55860-377-6.50048-7},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9781558603776500487},
author = {Ken Lang},
}
```
### Contributions
Thanks to [@mariamabarham](https://github.com/mariamabarham), [@thomwolf](https://github.com/thomwolf), [@lhoestq](https://github.com/lhoestq) for adding this dataset.