Chinese Wikinews Articles From ROOTS Corpus

Subset of the ROOTS corpus containing Chinese-language Wikinews articles. It represents 0.0081% of the total ROOTS corpus and 0.0081% of its Chinese-language content. The dataset was processed by BigScience and last updated in December 2022.

Use Cases

• Analyze Chinese-language news text for linguistic patterns and topic modeling.
• Train or fine-tune language models on a curated collection of Wikinews articles.
• Study the distribution and characteristics of Chinese text within the broader multilingual ROOTS corpus.

Strengths

• Part of the large-scale, multilingual ROOTS corpus curated by BigScience.
• Text data has undergone processing steps including filtering and deduplication.
• Dataset was updated on 2022-12-12, providing a specific timestamp.

Limitations

• The dataset size is very small, representing only 0.0081% of the total ROOTS corpus.
• Specific details like row count, column structure, and file formats are unknown.
• The temporal and geographic coverage of the news articles is not specified.

Provenance

Source

Wikinews, processed as part of the BigScience ROOTS corpus.

Collection Method

Filtered and deduplicated from the source Wikinews data.

Freshness

Last updated on 2022-12-12. Update frequency is unknown.