metadata

license: cc-by-2.5
language:
  - en
  - es
  - fr
  - de
  - pt
  - pl
  - it
  - zh
  - ru
  - ja
  - nl
  - sv
  - ta
  - sr
  - cs
  - ca
  - he
  - tr
  - fi
  - eo
  - el
  - hu
  - uk
  - 'no'
  - ar
  - fa
  - ko
  - ro
  - bg
  - bs
  - li
  - sq
  - th
task_categories:
  - text-classification
  - feature-extraction

Dataset Card for Dataset Name

This dataset contains 15,200 multilingual WikiNews articles in 33 languages. Out of 15,200 articles, 9,960 are non-English news and 5240 are English news. All non-English news are linked to one of 5240 English news. Linked articles show the same event. List of non-English languages are: Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Polish, Italian, Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Tamil, Serbian, Czech, Catalan, Hebrew, Turkish, Finnish, Esperanto, Greek, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Norwegian, Arabic, Persian, Korean, Romanian, Bulgarian, Bosnian, Limburgish, Albanian, Thai.

Dataset Details

Example raw datasets

	title	pageid	categories	lang	url	text	date	type
0	'Bloody Sunday Inquiry' publishes report into ...	191513	[Northern Ireland, Martin McGuinness, Politics...]	en	https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/%27Bloody_Sunday_...	[On Tuesday, the "Bloody Sunday Inquiry" publi...	2010-06-17	title
1	1972 ”இரத்த ஞாயிறு” படுகொலைகள் தொடர்பில் பிரித...	191513	[Northern Ireland, Martin McGuinness, Politics...]	ta	https://ta.wikinews.org/wiki/1972_%E2%80%9D%E0...	[வடக்கு அயர்லாந்தில் 38 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்னர் இ...	வியாழன், சூன் 17, 2010	interlang link
2	'Very serious': Chinese government releases co...	232226	[China, December 30, 2010, Politics and confli...]	en	https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/%27Very_serious%2...	[A report by the Chinese government states cor...	2010-12-30	title
3	Čína připustila, že tamní korupce je vážný pro...	232226	[China, December 30, 2010, Politics and confli...]	cs	https://cs.wikinews.org/wiki/%C4%8C%C3%ADna_p%...	[Zpráva čínské vlády připouští, že korupce v z...	Středa 29. prosince 2010	interlang link
4	China admite que la corrupción en el país es '...	232226	[China, December 30, 2010, Politics and confli...]	es	https://es.wikinews.org/wiki/China_admite_que_...	[29 de diciembre de 2010Beijing, China —, Un r...	None	interlang link

Variables

Each data point includes following variables:

Field Name	Description
title	WikiNews article title
pageid	pageid defined by the English WikiNews article. Data with the same pageid corresponds to the same news event linked together.
categories	list of topics defined by WikiNews. All pages have at least one topic from [Crime and law, Culture and entertainment, Disasters and accidents, Economy and business, Education, Environment, Heath, Obituaries, Politics and conflicts, Science and technology, Sports, Wackynews, Weather]
text	content of the article. Some foreign pages have news titles but no content. For those, text is left empty.
lang	languages of the article (WP code, check here for lists )
url	articles' URL
date	date of publish in YYYY-MM-DD for English pages. Dates in foreign pages were left as it is. To get a date with YYYY-MM-DD format, look for a English page with the same pageid.
type	`title` for the English page, `interlang link` for non-English page linked to the English page with the `pageid`

Dataset Description

Curated by: Fumika Isono, Primer AI
Language(s) (NLP): en, es, fr, de, pt, pl, it, zh, ru, ja, nl, sv, ta, sr, cs, ca, he, tr, fi, eo, el, hu, uk, 'no', ar, fa, ko, ro, bg, bs, li, sq, th
License: cc-by-2.5

Dataset Sources

Repository: Github
Paper: ArXiv Linear Cross-Lingual Mapping of Sentence Embeddings

Uses

Weakly aligned multilingual pararell sentence datasets

Weakly aligned multilingual pararell sentence datasets can be constructed by comparing the titles and/or contents of the WikiNews pages that are linked to the same English WikiNews page (in the dataset, they have the same pageid). Following is the example case where titles of the same pageid are retrieved. These five phrases (news titles) are the news titles of the same incident.

News title	Language	type
Bomb blast in Delhi kills 12, injures 62	English	title
چندین کشته بر اثر انفجار بمب در مقابل دادگاه عالی هند	Farsi	title
9 נהרגו בפיגוע מחוץ לבית המשפט העליון של הודו	Hebrew	title
У Индији 11 мртвих, 64 повређених	Serbian	title
தில்லி உயர்நீதிமன்றத்தில் குண்டு வெடிப்பு, 10 பேர் உயிரிழப்பு	Tamil	title

Direct Use

Multilingual embeddings
Language comparison

Source Data

Wikinews

Dataset Card Authors

Fumika Isono