Saudinewsnet: Saudi Arabian News Dataset

31,030 Arabic newspaper articles and metadata extracted from various online Saudi news platforms. The text is written in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and covers a range of journalistic content from regional sources.

Use Cases

• Train topic classification models using the article text and metadata
• Fine-tune Arabic language models on journalistic prose
• Perform regional entity extraction using the article content

Strengths

• 31,030 articles sourced from online Saudi newspapers
• Written in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA)
• Includes metadata for each article entry