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Dataset Summary
The dataset contains a set of 31,030 Arabic newspaper articles alongwith metadata, extracted from various online Saudi newspapers and written in MSA.
The dataset currently contains 31,030 Arabic articles (with a total number of 8,758,976 words). The articles were extracted from the following Saudi newspapers (sorted by number of articles):
- Al-Riyadh (4,852 articles)
- Al-Jazirah (3,690 articles)
- Al-Yaum (3,065 articles)
- Al-Eqtisadiya (2,964 articles)
- Al-Sharq Al-Awsat (2,947 articles)
- Okaz (2,846 articles)
- Al-Watan (2,279 articles)
- Al-Madina (2,252 articles)
- Al-Weeam (2,090 articles)
- Ain Alyoum (2,080 articles)
- Sabq (1,411 articles)
- Saudi Press Agency (369 articles)
- Arreyadi (133 articles)
- Arreyadiyah (52 articles)
Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
Languages
Dataset Structure
Data Instances
default
- Size of downloaded dataset files: 29.01 MB
- Size of the generated dataset: 103.65 MB
- Total amount of disk used: 132.67 MB
An example of 'train' looks as follows.
This example was too long and was cropped:
{
"author": "الرياض: محمد الحميدي",
"content": "\"في وقت تتهيأ فيه السعودية لإطلاق الإصدار الثاني من العملات المعدنية، لا تزال التداول بمبالغ النقود المصنوعة من المعدن مستقرة عن...",
"date_extracted": "2015-07-22 01:18:37",
"source": "aawsat",
"title": "\"«العملة المعدنية» السعودية تسجل انحسارًا تاريخيًا وسط تهيؤ لإطلاق الإصدار الثاني\"...",
"url": "\"http://aawsat.com/home/article/411671/«العملة-المعدنية»-السعودية-تسجل-انحسارًا-تاريخيًا-وسط-تهيؤ-لإطلاق-الإصدار-الثاني\"..."
}
Data Fields
The data fields are the same among all splits.
source(str): The source newspaper.url(str): The full URL from which the article was extracted.date_extracted(str): The timestamp of the date on which the article was extracted. It has the formatYYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss. Notice that this field does not necessarily represent the date on which the article was authored (or made available online), however for articles stamped with a date of extraction after August 1, 2015, this field most probably represents the date of authoring.title(str): The title of the article. Contains missing values that were replaced with an empty string.author(str): The author of the article. Contains missing values that were replaced with an empty string.content(str): The content of the article.
Data Splits
| name | train |
|---|---|
| default | 31030 |
Dataset Creation
Curation Rationale
Source Data
| String Identifier | Newspaper |
| ------------------ | --------- |
| aawsat | [Al-Sharq Al-Awsat](http://aawsat.com/) |
| aleqtisadiya | [Al-Eqtisadiya](http://aleqt.com/) |
| aljazirah | [Al-Jazirah](http://al-jazirah.com/) |
| almadina | [Al-Madina](http://www.al-madina.com/) |
| alriyadh | [Al-Riyadh](http://www.alriyadh.com/) |
| alwatan | [Al-Watan](http://alwatan.com.sa/) |
| alweeam | [Al-Weeam](http://alweeam.com.sa/) |
| alyaum | [Al-Yaum](http://alyaum.com/) |
| arreyadi | [Arreyadi](http://www.arreyadi.com.sa/) |
| arreyadiyah | [Arreyadi](http://www.arreyadiyah.com/) |
| okaz | [Okaz](http://www.okaz.com.sa/) |
| sabq | [Sabq](http://sabq.org/) |
| was | [Saudi Press Agency](http://www.spa.gov.sa/) |
| 3alyoum | [Ain Alyoum](http://3alyoum.com/) |
Initial Data Collection and Normalization
The Modern Standard Arabic texts crawled from the Internet.
Who are the source language producers?
Newspaper Websites.
Annotations
The dataset does not contain any additional annotations.
Personal and Sensitive Information
Considerations for Using the Data
Social Impact of Dataset
Discussion of Biases
Other Known Limitations
Additional Information
Dataset Curators
Licensing Information
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
Citation Information
@misc{hagrima2015,
author = "M. Alhagri",
title = "Saudi Newspapers Arabic Corpus (SaudiNewsNet)",
year = 2015,
url = "http://github.com/ParallelMazen/SaudiNewsNet"
}
Contributions
Thanks to @abdulelahsm for adding this dataset.
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