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# TeCla (Text Classification) Catalan dataset


## Dataset Description

- **Paper:** 

- **Point of Contact:** Carlos Rodríguez-Penagos (carlos.rodriguez1@bsc.es)



### Dataset Summary

WikiCAT_ca is a Catalan corpus for thematic Text Classification tasks. It is created automagically from Wikipedia and Wikidata sources, and contains 13201 articles from the Viquipedia classified under 19 different categories.

This dataset was developed by BSC TeMU as part of the AINA project, and intended as an evaluation of LT capabilities to generate useful synthetic corpus.

### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

Text classification, Language Model

### Languages

CA- Catalan

## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

Three json files, one for each split.

### Data Fields

We used a simple model with the article text and associated labels, without further metadata.

#### Example:

<pre>
{"version": "1.1.0",
 "data":
   [
    {
     'sentence': ' Celsius és conegut com l\'inventor de l\'escala centesimal del termòmetre. Encara que aquest instrument és un invent molt antic, la història de la seva gradació és molt més capritxosa. Durant el segle xvi era graduat com "fred" col·locant-lo (...)', 
    'label': 'Ciència'
    },
    .
    .
    .
  ]
}


</pre>

#### Labels

'Història', 'Tecnologia', 'Humanitats', 'Economia', 'Dret', 'Esport', 'Política', 'Govern', 'Entreteniment', 'Natura', 'Exèrcit', 'Salut_i_benestar_social', 'Matemàtiques', 'Filosofia', 'Ciència', 'Música', 'Enginyeria', 'Empresa', 'Religió'

### Data Splits

* train.json: 3970 label-document pairs
* dev.json: 9231  label-document pairs


## Dataset Creation

### Methodology

Se eligen páginas de partida “Category:” para representar los temas en cada lengua.

Se extrae para cada categoría las páginas principales, así como las subcategorías, y las páginas individuales bajo estas subcategorías de primer nivel.
Para cada página, se extrae también el “summary” que proporciona Wikipedia.
 

### Curation Rationale



### Source Data

#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

The source data are viquipedia articles and the English Wikipedia thematic categories

#### Who are the source language producers?



### Annotations

#### Annotation process



#### Who are the annotators?

Automatic annotation

### Personal and Sensitive Information

No personal or sensitive information included.

## Considerations for Using the Data

### Social Impact of Dataset

[More Information Needed]

### Discussion of Biases

[More Information Needed]

### Other Known Limitations

[More Information Needed]

## Additional Information

### Dataset Curators

Carlos Rodríguez from BSC-CNS

### Licensing Information

This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International</a>.

### Citation Information



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### Funding

This work was funded by the [Catalan Ministry of the Vice-presidency, Digital Policies and Territory](https://politiquesdigitals.gencat.cat/en/inici/index.html) within the framework of the [Aina project](https://politiquesdigitals.gencat.cat/ca/tic/aina-el-projecte-per-garantir-el-catala-en-lera-digital/).

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