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Dataset Card for EusCrawl

Dataset Summary

EusCrawl (http://www.ixa.eus/euscrawl/) is a high-quality corpus for Basque comprising 12.5 million documents and 423 million tokens, totalling 2.1 GiB of uncompressed text. EusCrawl was built using ad-hoc scrapers to extract text from 33 Basque websites with high-quality content, resulting in cleaner text compared to general purpose approaches.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

EusCrawl is intended for pretraining models for language modeling or masked language modeling.

Languages

Basque (eu)

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

{
    "id": 6,
    "title": "Herriko enpresa handien eta txikien arteko topaketak egingo dituzte",
    "text": "09:30ean hasiko da bilera eta aurkezpena egingo dute Tubacex, JEZ, Envases, Guardian eta Vidrala enpresek. Eskualdeko lantegi motorrekin beste enpresa txikiak eta ertainak egongo dira. Erakunde publikoaren helburua da euren artean ezagutzea eta elkarlana sustatzea.",
    "source": "aiaraldea",
    "license": "cc-by-sa 3.0",
    "url": "https://aiaraldea.eus/laudio/1494603159768-herriko-enpresa-handien-eta-txikien-arteko-topaketak-egingo-dituzte",
}

Data Fields

"id": example id
"title": article title
"text": article text
"source": article source
"license": article license
"url": article url

Data Splits

The dataset only has one training split because it is intended for pretraining language models.

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

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Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

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Who are the source language producers?

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Annotations

Annotation process

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Who are the annotators?

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Personal and Sensitive Information

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Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

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Discussion of Biases

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Other Known Limitations

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Additional Information

Dataset Curators

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Licensing Information

We do not claim ownership of any document in the corpus. All documents we collected were published under a Creative Commons license in their original website, and the specific variant can be found in the "license" field of each document. Should you consider that our data contains material that is owned by you and you would not like to be reproduced here, please contact Aitor Soroa at [email protected].

Citation Information

If you use our corpus or models for academic research, please cite the paper in question:

@misc{artetxe2022euscrawl,
    title={Does corpus quality really matter for low-resource languages?},
    author={Mikel Artetxe, Itziar Aldabe, Rodrigo Agerri,
    Olatz Perez-de-Viñaspre, Aitor Soroa},
    year={2022},
    eprint={2203.08111},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}