---
annotations_creators:
- no-annotation
language_creators:
- found
languages:
- ca
licenses:
- cc-by-4.0
multilinguality:
- monolingual
pretty_name: Catalan General Crawling
size_categories:
- 1M<n<10M
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- sequence-modeling
task_ids:
- language-modeling
---

# Dataset Card for Catalan General Crawling

## Table of Contents
- [Table of Contents](#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:** https://zenodo.org/record/5483031#.YapO3boo9PY
- **Paper:** [Are Multilingual Models the Best Choice for Moderately Under-resourced Languages? A Comprehensive Assessment for Catalan](https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.07903)
- **Point of Contact:**

### Dataset Summary

The Catalan General Crawling Corpus is a 435-million-token web corpus of Catalan built from the web. It has been obtained by crawling the 500 most popular .cat and .ad domains during July 2020. It consists of 434.817.705 tokens, 19.451.691 sentences and 1.016.114 documents. Documents are separated by single new lines. It is a subcorpus of the Catalan Textual Corpus.

### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

[More Information Needed]

### Languages

The dataset is in Catalan (`ca`).

## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

```
{'text': "L'operatiu continuarà durant aquest divendres."}
```

### Data Fields

- `text` (str): Text.

### Data Splits

The dataset contains a single split: "train".

## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

[More Information Needed]

### Source Data

#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

[More Information Needed]

#### Who are the source language producers?

[More Information Needed]

### Annotations

#### Annotation process

[More Information Needed]

#### Who are the annotators?

[More Information Needed]

### Personal and Sensitive Information

[More Information Needed]

## Considerations for Using the Data

### Social Impact of Dataset

[More Information Needed]

### Discussion of Biases

[More Information Needed]

### Other Known Limitations

[More Information Needed]

## Additional Information

### Dataset Curators

[More Information Needed]

### Licensing Information

[Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

### Citation Information

```
@misc{armengolestape2021multilingual,
      title={Are Multilingual Models the Best Choice for Moderately Under-resourced Languages? A Comprehensive Assessment for Catalan},
      author={Jordi Armengol{-}Estap{\'{e}} and Casimiro Pio Carrino and Carlos Rodriguez-Penagos and Ona de Gibert Bonet and Carme Armentano{-}Oller and Aitor Gonzalez{-}Agirre and Maite Melero and Marta Villegas},
      year={2021},
      eprint={2107.07903},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}
```

### Contributions

Thanks to [@albertvillanova](https://github.com/albertvillanova) for adding this dataset.