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| # Dataset Card for "reuters21578" | |
| ## Table of Contents | |
| - [Dataset Description](#dataset-description) | |
| - [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary) | |
| - [Supported Tasks](#supported-tasks) | |
| - [Languages](#languages) | |
| - [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure) | |
| - [Data Instances](#data-instances) | |
| - [Data Fields](#data-fields) | |
| - [Data Splits Sample Size](#data-splits-sample-size) | |
| - [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation) | |
| - [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale) | |
| - [Source Data](#source-data) | |
| - [Annotations](#annotations) | |
| - [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information) | |
| - [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data) | |
| - [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset) | |
| - [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases) | |
| - [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations) | |
| - [Additional Information](#additional-information) | |
| - [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators) | |
| - [Licensing Information](#licensing-information) | |
| - [Citation Information](#citation-information) | |
| - [Contributions](#contributions) | |
| ## [Dataset Description](#dataset-description) | |
| - **Homepage:** [https://kdd.ics.uci.edu/databases/reuters21578/reuters21578.html](https://kdd.ics.uci.edu/databases/reuters21578/reuters21578.html) | |
| - **Repository:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards) | |
| - **Paper:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards) | |
| - **Point of Contact:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards) | |
| - **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 23.32 MB | |
| - **Size of the generated dataset:** 49.80 MB | |
| - **Total amount of disk used:** 73.12 MB | |
| ### [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary) | |
| The Reuters-21578 dataset is one of the most widely used data collections for text | |
| categorization research. It is collected from the Reuters financial newswire service in 1987. | |
| ### [Supported Tasks](#supported-tasks) | |
| [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards) | |
| ### [Languages](#languages) | |
| [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards) | |
| ## [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure) | |
| We show detailed information for up to 5 configurations of the dataset. | |
| ### [Data Instances](#data-instances) | |
| #### ModApte | |
| - **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 7.77 MB | |
| - **Size of the generated dataset:** 12.45 MB | |
| - **Total amount of disk used:** 20.23 MB | |
| An example of 'train' looks as follows. | |
| ``` | |
| This example was too long and was cropped: | |
| { | |
| "cgis_split": "\"TRAINING-SET\"", | |
| "date": "19-MAR-1987 06:17:22.36", | |
| "exchanges": [], | |
| "lewis_split": "\"TRAIN\"", | |
| "new_id": "\"7001\"", | |
| "old_id": "\"11914\"", | |
| "orgs": [], | |
| "people": [], | |
| "places": ["australia"], | |
| "text": "\"Media group John Fairfax Ltd <FFXA.S>\\nsaid that its flat first half net profit partly reflected the\\nimpact of changes in t...", | |
| "title": "FAIRFAX SAYS HIGHER TAX HITS FIRST HALF EARNINGS", | |
| "topics": ["earn"] | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| #### ModHayes | |
| - **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 7.77 MB | |
| - **Size of the generated dataset:** 18.87 MB | |
| - **Total amount of disk used:** 26.64 MB | |
| An example of 'train' looks as follows. | |
| ``` | |
| This example was too long and was cropped: | |
| { | |
| "cgis_split": "\"TRAINING-SET\"", | |
| "date": "19-OCT-1987 23:49:31.45", | |
| "exchanges": [], | |
| "lewis_split": "\"TEST\"", | |
| "new_id": "\"20001\"", | |
| "old_id": "\"20596\"", | |
| "orgs": [], | |
| "people": [], | |
| "places": ["japan", "usa"], | |
| "text": "\"If the dollar goes the way of Wall Street,\\nJapanese will finally move out of dollar investments in a\\nserious way, Japan inves...", | |
| "title": "IF DOLLAR FOLLOWS WALL STREET JAPANESE WILL DIVEST", | |
| "topics": ["money-fx"] | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| #### ModLewis | |
| - **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 7.77 MB | |
| - **Size of the generated dataset:** 18.48 MB | |
| - **Total amount of disk used:** 26.26 MB | |
| An example of 'train' looks as follows. | |
| ``` | |
| This example was too long and was cropped: | |
| { | |
| "cgis_split": "\"TRAINING-SET\"", | |
| "date": "19-MAR-1987 06:17:22.36", | |
| "exchanges": [], | |
| "lewis_split": "\"TRAIN\"", | |
| "new_id": "\"7001\"", | |
| "old_id": "\"11914\"", | |
| "orgs": [], | |
| "people": [], | |
| "places": ["australia"], | |
| "text": "\"Media group John Fairfax Ltd <FFXA.S>\\nsaid that its flat first half net profit partly reflected the\\nimpact of changes in t...", | |
| "title": "FAIRFAX SAYS HIGHER TAX HITS FIRST HALF EARNINGS", | |
| "topics": ["earn"] | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| ### [Data Fields](#data-fields) | |
| The data fields are the same among all splits. | |
| #### ModApte | |
| - `text`: a `string` feature. | |
| - `topics`: a `list` of `string` features. | |
| - `lewis_split`: a `string` feature. | |
| - `cgis_split`: a `string` feature. | |
| - `old_id`: a `string` feature. | |
| - `new_id`: a `string` feature. | |
| - `places`: a `list` of `string` features. | |
| - `people`: a `list` of `string` features. | |
| - `orgs`: a `list` of `string` features. | |
| - `exchanges`: a `list` of `string` features. | |
| - `date`: a `string` feature. | |
| - `title`: a `string` feature. | |
| #### ModHayes | |
| - `text`: a `string` feature. | |
| - `topics`: a `list` of `string` features. | |
| - `lewis_split`: a `string` feature. | |
| - `cgis_split`: a `string` feature. | |
| - `old_id`: a `string` feature. | |
| - `new_id`: a `string` feature. | |
| - `places`: a `list` of `string` features. | |
| - `people`: a `list` of `string` features. | |
| - `orgs`: a `list` of `string` features. | |
| - `exchanges`: a `list` of `string` features. | |
| - `date`: a `string` feature. | |
| - `title`: a `string` feature. | |
| #### ModLewis | |
| - `text`: a `string` feature. | |
| - `topics`: a `list` of `string` features. | |
| - `lewis_split`: a `string` feature. | |
| - `cgis_split`: a `string` feature. | |
| - `old_id`: a `string` feature. | |
| - `new_id`: a `string` feature. | |
| - `places`: a `list` of `string` features. | |
| - `people`: a `list` of `string` features. | |
| - `orgs`: a `list` of `string` features. | |
| - `exchanges`: a `list` of `string` features. | |
| - `date`: a `string` feature. | |
| - `title`: a `string` feature. | |
| ### [Data Splits Sample Size](#data-splits-sample-size) | |
| #### ModApte | |
| | |train|unused|test| | |
| |-------|----:|-----:|---:| | |
| |ModApte| 8762| 720|3009| | |
| #### ModHayes | |
| | |train|test| | |
| |--------|----:|---:| | |
| |ModHayes|18323| 720| | |
| #### ModLewis | |
| | |train|unused|test| | |
| |--------|----:|-----:|---:| | |
| |ModLewis|12449| 720|5458| | |
| ## [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation) | |
| ### [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale) | |
| [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards) | |
| ### [Source Data](#source-data) | |
| [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards) | |
| ### [Annotations](#annotations) | |
| [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards) | |
| ### [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information) | |
| [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards) | |
| ## [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data) | |
| ### [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset) | |
| [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards) | |
| ### [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases) | |
| [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards) | |
| ### [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations) | |
| [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards) | |
| ## [Additional Information](#additional-information) | |
| ### [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators) | |
| [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards) | |
| ### [Licensing Information](#licensing-information) | |
| [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards) | |
| ### [Citation Information](#citation-information) | |
| ``` | |
| @article{APTE94, | |
| author = {Chidanand Apt{'{e}} and Fred Damerau and Sholom M. Weiss}, | |
| title = {Automated Learning of Decision Rules for Text Categorization}, | |
| journal = {ACM Transactions on Information Systems}, | |
| year = {1994}, | |
| note = {To appear.} | |
| } | |
| @inproceedings{APTE94b, | |
| author = {Chidanand Apt{'{e}} and Fred Damerau and Sholom M. Weiss}, | |
| title = {Toward Language Independent Automated Learning of Text Categorization Models}, | |
| booktitle = {sigir94}, | |
| year = {1994}, | |
| note = {To appear.} | |
| } | |
| @inproceedings{HAYES8}, | |
| author = {Philip J. Hayes and Peggy M. Anderson and Irene B. Nirenburg and | |
| Linda M. Schmandt}, | |
| title = {{TCS}: A Shell for Content-Based Text Categorization}, | |
| booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications}, | |
| year = {1990} | |
| } | |
| @inproceedings{HAYES90b, | |
| author = {Philip J. Hayes and Steven P. Weinstein}, | |
| title = {{CONSTRUE/TIS:} A System for Content-Based Indexing of a | |
| Database of News Stories}, | |
| booktitle = {Second Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of | |
| Artificial Intelligence}, | |
| year = {1990} | |
| } | |
| @incollection{HAYES92 , | |
| author = {Philip J. Hayes}, | |
| title = {Intelligent High-Volume Text Processing using Shallow, | |
| Domain-Specific Techniques}, | |
| booktitle = {Text-Based Intelligent Systems}, | |
| publisher = {Lawrence Erlbaum}, | |
| address = {Hillsdale, NJ}, | |
| year = {1992}, | |
| editor = {Paul S. Jacobs} | |
| } | |
| @inproceedings{LEWIS91c , | |
| author = {David D. Lewis}, | |
| title = {Evaluating Text Categorization}, | |
| booktitle = {Proceedings of Speech and Natural Language Workshop}, | |
| year = {1991}, | |
| month = {feb}, | |
| organization = {Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency}, | |
| publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann}, | |
| pages = {312--318} | |
| } | |
| @phdthesis{LEWIS91d, | |
| author = {David Dolan Lewis}, | |
| title = {Representation and Learning in Information Retrieval}, | |
| school = {Computer Science Dept.; Univ. of Massachusetts; Amherst, MA 01003}, | |
| year = 1992}, | |
| note = {Technical Report 91--93.} | |
| } | |
| @inproceedings{LEWIS91e, | |
| author = {David D. Lewis}, | |
| title = {Data Extraction as Text Categorization: An Experiment with | |
| the {MUC-3} Corpus}, | |
| booktitle = {Proceedings of the Third Message Understanding Evaluation | |
| and Conference}, | |
| year = {1991}, | |
| month = {may}, | |
| organization = {Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency}, | |
| publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann}, | |
| address = {Los Altos, CA} | |
| } | |
| @inproceedings{LEWIS92b, | |
| author = {David D. Lewis}, | |
| title = {An Evaluation of Phrasal and Clustered Representations on a Text | |
| Categorization Task}, | |
| booktitle = {Fifteenth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on | |
| Research and Development in Information Retrieval}, | |
| year = {1992}, | |
| pages = {37--50} | |
| } | |
| @inproceedings{LEWIS92d , | |
| author = {David D. Lewis and Richard M. Tong}, | |
| title = {Text Filtering in {MUC-3} and {MUC-4}}, | |
| booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fourth Message Understanding Conference ({MUC-4})}, | |
| year = {1992}, | |
| month = {jun}, | |
| organization = {Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency}, | |
| publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann}, | |
| address = {Los Altos, CA} | |
| } | |
| @inproceedings{LEWIS92e, | |
| author = {David D. Lewis}, | |
| title = {Feature Selection and Feature Extraction for Text Categorization}, | |
| booktitle = {Proceedings of Speech and Natural Language Workshop}, | |
| year = {1992}, | |
| month = {feb} , | |
| organization = {Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency}, | |
| publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann}, | |
| pages = {212--217} | |
| } | |
| @inproceedings{LEWIS94b, | |
| author = {David D. Lewis and Marc Ringuette}, | |
| title = {A Comparison of Two Learning Algorithms for Text Categorization}, | |
| booktitle = {Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval}, | |
| year = {1994}, | |
| organization = {ISRI; Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas}, | |
| address = {Las Vegas, NV}, | |
| month = {apr}, | |
| pages = {81--93} | |
| } | |
| @article{LEWIS94d, | |
| author = {David D. Lewis and Philip J. Hayes}, | |
| title = {Guest Editorial}, | |
| journal = {ACM Transactions on Information Systems}, | |
| year = {1994}, | |
| volume = {12}, | |
| number = {3}, | |
| pages = {231}, | |
| month = {jul} | |
| } | |
| @article{SPARCKJONES76, | |
| author = {K. {Sparck Jones} and C. J. {van Rijsbergen}}, | |
| title = {Information Retrieval Test Collections}, | |
| journal = {Journal of Documentation}, | |
| year = {1976}, | |
| volume = {32}, | |
| number = {1}, | |
| pages = {59--75} | |
| } | |
| @book{WEISS91, | |
| author = {Sholom M. Weiss and Casimir A. Kulikowski}, | |
| title = {Computer Systems That Learn}, | |
| publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann}, | |
| year = {1991}, | |
| address = {San Mateo, CA} | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| ### Contributions | |
| Thanks to [@jplu](https://github.com/jplu), [@jbragg](https://github.com/jbragg), [@thomwolf](https://github.com/thomwolf), [@mariamabarham](https://github.com/mariamabarham), [@lhoestq](https://github.com/lhoestq) for adding this dataset. |