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            '4': 1921-1925
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            '6': 1931-1935
            '7': 1936-1940
            '8': 1941-1945
            '9': 1946-1950
            '10': 1951-1955
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DaDoEval

Disclaimer: This dataset is not the official DaDoEval repository from EVALITA. For the official dataset and more information, please visit the EVALITA DaDoEval page and the DaDoEval repository.

Overview

The DaDoEval dataset is a curated collection of 2,759 documents authored by Alcide De Gasperi, spanning the period from 1901 to 1954. Each document in the dataset is manually tagged with its date of issue. This dataset is designed for the temporal classification task, specifically focused on assigning a temporal span to documents. The corpus is divided into a training set and an in-domain test set to facilitate supervised learning approaches. In addition to the primary dataset, a cross-genre out-of-domain test set consisting of approximately 100 letters from the Epistolario project is included.

Sub-tasks:

Coarse-grained Classification: Assign documents to one of five historical periods in De Gasperi's life.
Fine-grained Classification: Assign documents to a 5-year temporal slice.
Year-based Classification: Assign documents to their exact year of publication.

Historical Periods:

The following table outlines the periods defined by historians for the coarse-grained classification task:

Period	Years
Habsburg years	1901-1918
Beginning of political activity	1919-1926
Internal exile	1927-1942
From fascism to the Italian Republic	1943-1947
Building the Italian Republic	1948-1954

Dataset Structure:

id: A unique identifier for each document.
text: The full text content of the document.
year: The exact year the document was issued.
class: The historical period the document belongs to.
year_range: A 5-year temporal slice indicating the period the document falls into.

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite the original authors:

@inproceedings{menini2020dadoeval,
  title={DaDoEval@ EVALITA 2020: Same-genre and cross-genre dating of historical documents},
  author={Menini, Stefano and Moretti, Giovanni and Sprugnoli, Rachele and Tonelli, Sara and others},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the Seventh Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop (EVALITA 2020)},
  pages={391--397},
  year={2020},
  organization={Accademia University Press}
}