README.md

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# Dataset Card for MessIRve (corpus)

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This is the Spanish Wikipedia corpus for MessIRve. A document corresponds to a paragraph in Wikipedia. We used [WikiExtractor](https://github.com/attardi/wikiextractor) to process the Spanish Wikipedia dump of 2024-04-01. We provide the title of the Wikipedia articles to use as additional context when retrieving. 


## Dataset Details


### Dataset Sources

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- **Repository:** TBA
- **Paper:** [MessIRve: A Large-Scale Spanish Information Retrieval Dataset](http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05994)


## Dataset Structure

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### Data Instances

A typical instance in the dataset looks like:

```json
{
    "docid": "17#9",
    "title": "Demografía de Andorra", 
    "text": "El mayor núcleo de población del Principado es la capital, Andorra la Vieja, con 24.574 habitantes (2008), lo que representa el 29,6% de la población andorrana. Las siguientes parroquias por población son Las Escaldas-Engordany (16.474 hab.) y Encamp (14.030hab.)."
}
```

Following [MIRACL](https://huggingface.co./datasets/miracl/miracl-corpus), `docid` has the pattern X#Y, where Y indicates the sequentially numbered passage inside the Wikipedia article, and all passages with the same X are from the same article. The article name from which the paragraph is taken is in the `title` field.


### Data Fields

- `docid`: document ID in the corpus
- `title`: article title
- `text`: document text (a passage)

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## Citation

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**BibTeX:**

```bibtex
@article{valentini2024messirve,
      title={MessIRve: A Large-Scale Spanish Information Retrieval Dataset}, 
      author={Francisco Valentini and Viviana Cotik and Damián Furman and Ivan Bercovich and Edgar Altszyler and Juan Manuel Pérez},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2409.05994},
      journal={arxiv:2409.05994},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05994}, 
}
```

**APA:**

Francisco Valentini, Viviana Cotik, Damián Furman, Ivan Bercovich, Edgar Altszyler, & Juan Manuel Pérez (2024). MessIRve: A Large-Scale Spanish Information Retrieval Dataset. arxiv:2409.05994.