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Description
Approximately 13,000 sentences from Philippine Martial Law-era newspapers, annotated for named entities. The dataset is sourced from the University of Hawaii’s eVols and the Bantayog ng mga Bayani digital library. It contains around 8,000 segmented samples with annotations for entities like persons, organizations, locations, and times.
Use Cases
Train named entity recognition models based on annotated entities like PER-IND and ORG-GOV.
Analyze media discourse during the Martial Law period based on annotated PROD-MEDIA and ORG-POL entities.
Study the frequency and distribution of military and government organizations based on ORG-MIL and ORG-GOV annotations.
Extract temporal and geographical references from historical texts based on TIME and LOC entity tags.
Strengths
Approximately 13,000 sentences provide a substantial text corpus.
Annotations follow specific guidelines for entity types like PER-COLL and PROD-GOV.
Sourced from two established digital repositories, suggesting curated historical sources.
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 and source bias inherent to the selected newspaper repositories.
Provenance
Source
University of Hawaii’s eVols and Bantayog ng mga Bayani digital library.
Collection Method
Sourced from various Martial Law newspaper repositories.
Time Range
Likely covers the period of Martial Law in the Philippines (1972-1981).
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-04 00:45:09; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Philippines.
License is unknown; terms of use must be verified before application.