Arabic Wikinews Articles from ROOTS Corpus

Featuring a filtered subset of Arabic Wikinews articles from the ROOTS corpus. It is part of the BigScience data project and was last updated in December 2022. The specific row count and column structure are not provided in the input.

Use Cases

• Analyze text patterns and journalistic style in Arabic Wikinews articles.
• Train language models on filtered Arabic news text from the ROOTS corpus.
• Study the application of filters like `filter_wiki_user_titles` and `filter_wiki_non_text_type` on web-sourced text data.

Strengths

• Part of the large-scale, multilingual ROOTS corpus curated by BigScience.
• Includes specific processing steps like `dedup_document` to reduce redundancy.
• Dataset tags indicate it contains text modality data in Parquet format.

Limitations

• The exact number of rows, columns, and sample data are unavailable for assessment.
• The dataset's size is described only as a percentage of other corpora, not in absolute terms.
• The description is minimal, lacking details on content scope, annotation, or completeness.

Provenance

Source

Wikinews, processed by BigScience.

Collection Method

Web-scraped articles filtered with steps like `filter_wiki_user_titles` and `dedup_document`.

Freshness

Last updated on 2022-12-12.

Geography

Region tag indicates 'us', but primary language is Arabic (ar).