license: cc
task_categories:
- text-generation
language:
- eu
tags:
- Basque
- Euskara
pretty_name: Zelai Handi🌱
version: v1
release_date: 2024/02/27
size_categories:
- 100M<n<1B
ZelaiHandi🌱: A Large Open Dataset of Basque.
Dataset Card for ZelaiHandi🌱
ZelaiHandi🌱: A Large Open Dataset of Basque. ZelaiHandi (large pasture in Basque) is the largest open corpus publicly available in Basque (as of 2024/02/27), containing roughly 560M tokens. The corpus is composed of clean texts extracted from specific web sources, including exclusively content with free licenses.
The dataset will receive yearly updates.
The corpus is released with the aim of "feeding" LLMs like llama-2, Latxa, etc. Of course other non "herbivore" models can also use ZelaiHandi.
Dataset Details
Dataset Description
- Size: 559M words.
- Language(s) (NLP): EU
- License: Various CC licenses.
- Curated by: Orai NLP Technologies
Dataset Structure
The corpus is released in jsonl format. Each document contains the following properties:
{
"source": "source",
"license": "document license",
"lang": "eu",
"url": "document url",
"title": "document title",
"author": "document author if known, null otherwise",
"date": "yyyy-mm-dd",
"text": "document content, ready to use raw text. Title text (for news and articles) is included as well.",
"domain": "document domain. one of ['news', 'administrative', 'wikipedia', 'science', 'subtitles', 'literature', 'videogames']"
}
Dataset Creation
Source Data
This is a corpus of the Basque language. It contains 559.380.531 raw tokens. It was gathered from various web sources and contains data up to 2024/02/23.
The following table summarizes corpus statistics and license information.
| source | base url | domain | tokens (M) | license |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tokikom | https://tokikom.eus/bazkideak/ | news | 165.75 | cc-by / cc-by-sa |
| Berria | https://berria.eus | news | 178.77 | cc-by-sa 4.0 |
| Eusko Legebiltzarra | https://www.legebiltzarra.eus | administrative | 80 | public domain |
| Wikipedia | https://wikipedia.org | wikipedia | 63.8 | cc0 |
| addi | https://addi.ehu.es/ | science | 17 | cc-by-nc-sa / cc-by-nc-nd |
| argia | https://www.argia.eus | science | 17.44 | cc-by-sa 4.0 |
| opendata euskadi subtiitles | https://opendata.euskadi.eus/catalogo/-/euskarazko-azpitituluak-filmak-eta-telesailak-euskaraz/ | subtitles | 11 | cc-by-sa |
| GFA | https://www.bngipuzkoa.eus/ | administrative | 8.4 | Custom copyright license |
| zientzia.eus | https://zientzia.eus | science | 8.3 | cc-by-sa |
| susa | https://www.susa-literatura.eus/ | literature | 5.8 | cc-by |
| BFA (+Nafarroa?) | https://jjggbizkaia.eus | administrative | 4.2 | Custom copyright license |
| zientzia kaiera | https://zientziakaiera.eus/ | science | 2 | cc-by-sa 3.0 |
| ekaia | https://ojs.ehu.eus/index.php/ekaia | science | 1.8 | cc-by-nc-nd |
| ikergazte | https://www.buruxkak.eus/bilatu?bilaketa=ikergazte | science | 1.7 | cc-by-sa 3.0 |
| game-erauntsia | https://gamerauntsia.eus/ | videogames | 0.40 | cc-by-sa |
| Total | 566.36 |
* Custom license, allows reproducibility. License text here: https://www.bngipuzkoa.eus/WAS/CORP/DJGPortalWEB/aviso_legal.jsp
** Custom license, allows reproducibility License text here: https://jjggbizkaia.eus/eu/pribadutasun-politikea
Data collection efforts were performed between 2024/01/01-2024/02/23.
License
The corpus is comprised of documents from various sources. All documents included have a free license, but each source has its own license. All documents collected are publicly available under free use licenses in their original website. If you are the owner of any data included in the corpus and you would not like to be reproduced here, please contact us.
Bias, Risks, and Limitations
This corpus inherits the Basque society's stereotypes and biases. Moreover, it might include explicit language, slurs and hate speech, (mostly on the fictional text from literature and subtitles).
Citation
Coming soon.
License
Dataset Card Contact
- Iñaki San Vicente (i.sanvicente@orai.eus)
- Gorka Urbizu (g.urbizu@orai.eus)