MNAD.v2: Over 1 Million Moroccan News Articles

Over 1 million news articles in modern Arabic, gathered from 11 prominent electronic news sources. The corpus was created by J-Mourad and made available to the academic community for research purposes. The dataset page was last updated on 2023-05-16.

Use Cases

• Clustering news articles based on content mentioned in the description
• Classifying news articles by topic or source based on textual features
• Ranking articles for information retrieval tasks based on textual content
• Search engine development for Arabic news archives based on the corpus

Strengths

• Over 1 million articles, indicating a large-scale text collection
• Articles sourced from 11 prominent electronic news sources, suggesting diversity of origin
• Focus on modern Arabic language, which is a specific linguistic domain

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

11 prominent electronic news sources

Collection Method

Gathered from electronic news sources

Freshness

Last updated 2023-05-16 12:22:21; freshness should be verified

Geography

Morocco