Catalan Wikinews Articles from ROOTS Corpus

Aggregating a filtered subset of Wikinews articles in Catalan, part of the ROOTS corpus. It represents 0.0725% of the Catalan (ca) language portion of the corpus. The data was processed by BigScience and includes text filtering and deduplication steps.

Use Cases

• Analyze text patterns and journalistic style in Catalan-language Wikinews articles.
• Train a language model on filtered Catalan news text from the ROOTS corpus.
• Study the distribution of multilingual content, as the dataset includes portions from languages like Arabic (ar), Portuguese (pt), and Spanish (es).

Strengths

• Part of the large-scale, multilingual ROOTS corpus.
• Includes specific filtering steps like 'filter_wiki_user_titles' and 'filter_wiki_non_text_type' for data quality.
• Contains text data in Catalan, representing 0.0725% of the Catalan portion of the source corpus.

Limitations

• The dataset size and number of rows are unknown.
• Specific column structure and sample data are unavailable for inspection.
• The temporal coverage and geographic scope of the news articles are not specified.

Provenance

Source

Wikinews, processed by BigScience as part of the ROOTS corpus.

Collection Method

Filtered and deduplicated from a larger Wikinews corpus.

Time Range

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Freshness

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Geography

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