fr_covid_news

# Dataset Card for COVID-19 French News dataset ## Table of Contents - [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents) - [Dataset Description](#dataset-description) - [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary) - [Supported Tasks and Leaderboards](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards) - [Languages](#languages) - [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure) - [Data Instances](#data-instances) - [Data Fields](#data-fields) - [Data Splits](#data-splits) - [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 - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Paper:** - **Leaderboard:** - **Point of Contact:** ### Dataset Summary The COVID-19 French News dataset is a French-language dataset containing just over 40k unique news articles from more than 50 different French-speaking online newspapers. The dataset has been prepared using [news-please](https://github.com/fhamborg/news-please) - an integrated web crawler and information extractor for news. The current version supports abstractive summarization and topic classification. Dataset Card not finished yet. ### Languages The text in the dataset is in French. ## Dataset Structure ### Data Instances [More Information Needed] ### Data Fields - `title`: title of the article - `description`: description or a summary of the article - `text`: the actual article text in raw form - `domain`: source domain of the article (i.e. lemonde.fr) - `url`: article URL, the original URL where it was scraped - `labels`: classification labels ## Data Splits COVID-19 French News dataset has only the training set, i.e. it has to be loaded with train split specified: fr_covid_news = load_dataset('gustavecortal/fr_covid_news', split="train") ## Dataset Creation ### Curation Rationale [More Information Needed] ### Source Data #### Initial Data Collection and Normalization [More Information Needed] #### Who are the source language producers? ### Annotations #### Annotation process [More Information Needed] ### Personal and Sensitive Information As one can imagine, data contains contemporary public figures or individuals who appeared in the news. ## Considerations for Using the Data ### Social Impact of Dataset The purpose of this dataset is to help researchers develop better French topic classification and abstractive summarization models for news related to COVID-19. ### Discussion of Biases [More Information Needed] ### Other Known Limitations [More Information Needed] ## Additional Information ### Dataset Curators The data was originally collected by Gustave Cortal ([e-mail]) ### Licensing Information Usage of the dataset is restricted to non-commercial research purposes only. ### Citation Information ``` @dataset{fr_covid_news, author = {Gustave Cortal}, year = {2022}, title = {COVID-19 - French News Dataset}, url = {https://www.gustavecortal.com} } ``` ### Contributions [@gustavecortal](https://github.com/gustavecortal)