AG News: Over 1 Million News Articles from 2000+ Sources

More than 1 million news articles gathered over more than 1 year of activity by the academic news search engine ComeToMyHead. The collection originates from more than 2000 news sources and is provided by the academic community for research purposes in data mining and information retrieval. The dataset was last updated on the platform in February 2023.

Use Cases

• Train topic classification models based on the news article text.
• Benchmark clustering algorithms on a large corpus of news articles.
• Develop and test information retrieval ranking systems using news content.
• Conduct research on news trends and source analysis across the aggregated sources.

Strengths

• Contains more than 1 million news articles, providing substantial scale.
• Aggregates content from more than 2000 distinct news sources.
• Collected over more than one year, offering temporal breadth.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to its collection period.

Provenance

Source

ComeToMyHead academic news search engine.

Collection Method

News articles gathered from more than 2000 news sources.

Time Range

Collected over more than one year of activity.

Freshness

Last updated 2023-02-23 07:22:32; freshness should be verified.