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- no-annotation
language_creators:
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language:
- ca
license:
- cc0-1.0
multilinguality:
- monolingual
pretty_name: Catalan Government Crawling
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
source_datasets:
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task_categories:
- sequence-modeling
task_ids:
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---

# Dataset Card for Catalan Government 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/5511667
- **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 Government Crawling Corpus is a 39-million-token web corpus of Catalan built from the web. It has been obtained by crawling the .gencat domain and subdomains, belonging to the Catalan Government during September and October 2020. It consists of 39.117.909 tokens, 1.565.433 sentences and 71.043 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': 'Títol: Estudi de tres marededéus del bisbat de Solsona\nResponsables del projecte: Pep Paret conservador–restaurador de l\'Àrea de Pintura i Escultura sobre fusta del CRBMC\nL\'objecte d\'aquest est
udi és un millor coneixement de l\'estat de conservació del patrimoni moble català, en concret de tres escultures romàniques del bisbat de Solsona.\nEs du a terme un estudi científic de tres marededéus del bisb
at de Solsona: la Mare de Déu de Queralt, la Mare de Déu de Coaner i la Mare de Déu de la Quar.\nLes imatges originals són romàniques, però totes elles han patit modificacions estructurals...'
}
```

### 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 CC0 1.0 Universal](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).

### Citation Information

```
@inproceedings{armengol-estape-etal-2021-multilingual,
    title = "Are Multilingual Models the Best Choice for Moderately Under-resourced Languages? {A} Comprehensive Assessment for {C}atalan",
    author = "Armengol-Estap{\'e}, Jordi  and
      Carrino, Casimiro Pio  and
      Rodriguez-Penagos, Carlos  and
      de Gibert Bonet, Ona  and
      Armentano-Oller, Carme  and
      Gonzalez-Agirre, Aitor  and
      Melero, Maite  and
      Villegas, Marta",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021",
    month = aug,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.findings-acl.437",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.findings-acl.437",
    pages = "4933--4946",
    eprint={2107.07903},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}
```
### Funding

This work was funded by the [Catalan Ministry of the Vice-presidency, Digital Policies and Territory](https://politiquesdigitals.gencat.cat/en/inici/index.html) within the framework of the [Aina project](https://politiquesdigitals.gencat.cat/ca/tic/aina-el-projecte-per-garantir-el-catala-en-lera-digital/).

### Contributions

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