Persian Daily News Corpus

Persian Daily News is a text dataset of news articles in the Persian (Farsi) language. The dataset was created by user 'proffttega' and last updated on Hugging Face in September 2021. Its specific volume and content details are not provided in the available metadata.

Use Cases

• Training or fine-tuning Persian language models for text generation or classification using the article text.
• Analyzing news topics and trends over time by processing the temporal metadata of articles.
• Conducting sentiment analysis on Persian media content by labeling the tone of news articles.
• Building named entity recognition systems to identify persons, organizations, and locations within Persian news text.

Strengths

• Dataset is hosted on a major platform (Hugging Face) facilitating access and integration.
• Provides a focused collection of text data in the Persian language, a less common resource.

Limitations

• Unknown dataset size, row count, and temporal coverage limit assessment of scale and representativeness.
• Lack of documented license, column descriptions, and sample data hinders immediate usability and compliance checks.
• Data is from 2021 and may not reflect current events or linguistic trends.

Provenance

Source

Hugging Face user 'proffttega'.

Collection Method

Assumed to be collected from daily Persian news sources; specific method is unknown.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated in September 2021; update frequency is unknown.

Geography

Presumably Iran or Persian-speaking regions; specific geography is unknown.