French Wikinews Articles from ROOTS Corpus

A subset of the ROOTS corpus, containing filtered French-language articles from Wikinews. It represents 0.0405% of the total French-language content within the larger corpus. The data has undergone processing steps including title and non-text filtering, as well as deduplication.

Use Cases

• Analyze French-language news article structure and content from the Wikinews source.
• Train language models on filtered and deduplicated French text data.
• Study the distribution and characteristics of multilingual content within the ROOTS corpus, focusing on the French language portion.

Strengths

• Part of the large-scale, multilingual ROOTS corpus, which aggregates data from over 40 sources.
• Data has undergone specific filtering processes (filter_wiki_user_titles, filter_wiki_non_text_type) and deduplication.
• Contains text data in French, representing a defined subset (0.0405%) of the corpus's French content.

Limitations

• The specific number of rows, columns, and total size of this subset is unknown.
• Sample data and detailed column structure are unavailable for inspection.
• The dataset's temporal coverage and geographic focus are not specified.

Provenance

Source

Wikinews, processed as part of the BigScience ROOTS corpus.

Collection Method

Data was filtered (e.g., for user titles, non-text types) and deduplicated from the original Wikinews source.

Time Range

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Freshness

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Geography

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