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| - found | |
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| - en | |
| license: | |
| - unknown | |
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| - monolingual | |
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| - 100K<n<1M | |
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| - text-generation | |
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| - language-modeling | |
| - masked-language-modeling | |
| paperswithcode_id: cc-news | |
| pretty_name: CC-News | |
| dataset_info: | |
| config_name: plain_text | |
| features: | |
| - name: title | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: text | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: domain | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: date | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: description | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: url | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: image_url | |
| dtype: string | |
| splits: | |
| - name: train | |
| num_bytes: 2016416145 | |
| num_examples: 708241 | |
| download_size: 1122805586 | |
| dataset_size: 2016416145 | |
| configs: | |
| - config_name: plain_text | |
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| - split: train | |
| path: plain_text/train-* | |
| default: true | |
| # Dataset Card for CC-News | |
| ## 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:** [CC-News homepage](https://commoncrawl.org/2016/10/news-dataset-available/) | |
| - **Point of Contact:** [Vladimir Blagojevic](mailto:dovlex@gmail.com) | |
| ### Dataset Summary | |
| CC-News dataset contains news articles from news sites all over the world. The data is available on AWS S3 in the Common Crawl bucket at /crawl-data/CC-NEWS/. | |
| This version of the dataset has been prepared using [news-please](https://github.com/fhamborg/news-please) - an integrated web crawler and information extractor for news. | |
| It contains 708241 English language news articles published between Jan 2017 and December 2019. | |
| It represents a small portion of the English language subset of the CC-News dataset. | |
| ### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards | |
| CC-News has been mostly used for language model training. | |
| ### Languages | |
| The text in the dataset is in the English language. | |
| ## Dataset Structure | |
| ### Data Instances | |
| Dataset instance contains an article itself and the relevant article fields. | |
| An example from the Cc-New train set looks as follows: | |
| ``` | |
| { | |
| 'date': '2017-08-14 00:00:00', | |
| 'description': '"The spirit of Green Day has always been about rising above oppression."', | |
| 'domain': '1041jackfm.cbslocal.com', | |
| 'image_url': 'https://cbs1041jackfm.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/billie-joe-armstrong-theo-wargo-getty-images.jpg?w=946', | |
| 'text': 'By Abby Hassler\nGreen Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong has always been outspoken about his political beliefs. Following | |
| the tragedy in Charlottesville, Virgina, over the weekend, Armstrong felt the need to speak out against the white supremacists | |
| who caused much of the violence.\nRelated: Billie Joe Armstrong Wins #TBT with Childhood Studio Photo\n“My heart feels heavy. | |
| I feel like what happened in Charlottesville goes beyond the point of anger,” Armstrong wrote on Facebook. “It makes me sad | |
| and desperate. shocked. I f—— hate racism more than anything.”\n“The spirit of Green Day has always been about rising above | |
| oppression. and sticking up for what you believe in and singing it at the top of your lungs,” Armstrong continued. | |
| “We grew up fearing nuclear holocaust because of the cold war. those days are feeling way too relevant these days. | |
| these issues are our ugly past.. and now it’s coming to haunt us. always resist these doomsday politicians. and in the | |
| words of our punk forefathers .. Nazi punks f— off.”', | |
| 'title': 'Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong Rails Against White Nationalists', | |
| 'url': 'http://1041jackfm.cbslocal.com/2017/08/14/billie-joe-armstrong-white-nationalists/' | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| ### Data Fields | |
| - `date`: date of publication | |
| - `description`: description or a summary of the article | |
| - `domain`: source domain of the article (i.e. www.nytimes.com) | |
| - `image_url`: URL of the article's image | |
| - `text`: the actual article text in raw form | |
| - `title`: title of the article | |
| - `url`: article URL, the original URL where it was scraped. | |
| ### Data Splits | |
| CC-News dataset has only the training set, i.e. it has to be loaded with `train` split specified: | |
| `cc_news = load_dataset('cc_news', split="train")` | |
| ## Dataset Creation | |
| ### Curation Rationale | |
| [More Information Needed] | |
| ### Source Data | |
| #### Initial Data Collection and Normalization | |
| CC-News dataset has been proposed, created, and maintained by Sebastian Nagel. | |
| The data is publicly available on AWS S3 Common Crawl bucket at /crawl-data/CC-NEWS/. | |
| This version of the dataset has been prepared using [news-please](https://github.com/fhamborg/news-please) - an | |
| integrated web crawler and information extractor for news. | |
| It contains 708241 English language news articles published between Jan 2017 and December 2019. | |
| Although news-please tags each news article with an appropriate language tag, these tags are somewhat unreliable. | |
| To strictly isolate English language articles an additional check has been performed using | |
| [Spacy langdetect pipeline](https://spacy.io/universe/project/spacy-langdetect). | |
| We selected articles with text fields scores of 80% probability or more of being English. | |
| There are no strict guarantees that each article has all the relevant fields. For example, 527595 | |
| articles have a valid description field. All articles have what appears to be a valid image URL, | |
| but they have not been verified. | |
| #### Who are the source language producers? | |
| The news websites throughout the World. | |
| ### Annotations | |
| #### Annotation process | |
| [N/A] | |
| #### Who are the annotators? | |
| [N/A] | |
| ### Personal and Sensitive Information | |
| As one can imagine, data contains contemporary public figures or individuals who appeared in the news. | |
| ## Considerations for Using the Data | |
| ### Social Impact of Dataset | |
| The purpose of this dataset is to help language model researchers develop better language models. | |
| ### Discussion of Biases | |
| [More Information Needed] | |
| ### Other Known Limitations | |
| [More Information Needed] | |
| ## Additional Information | |
| ### Dataset Curators | |
| [More Information Needed] | |
| ### Licensing Information | |
| [More Information Needed] | |
| ### Citation Information | |
| ``` | |
| @InProceedings{Hamborg2017, | |
| author = {Hamborg, Felix and Meuschke, Norman and Breitinger, Corinna and Gipp, Bela}, | |
| title = {news-please: A Generic News Crawler and Extractor}, | |
| year = {2017}, | |
| booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium of Information Science}, | |
| location = {Berlin}, | |
| doi = {10.5281/zenodo.4120316}, | |
| pages = {218--223}, | |
| month = {March} | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| ### Contributions | |
| Thanks to [@vblagoje](https://github.com/vblagoje) for adding this dataset. |