Multilingual News Corpus

Stats

• Language: English, German
• 387197 Articles
• 11 classes
• Rich meta information available for the articles

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1. Get Access to the Corpus

Since the news articles themselfes are copyrighted to the original publisher, access to this corpus can't be made public. If you want access, drop a short Email to griesshaber@hdm-stuttgart.de.

2. I already have access

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Classes

The corpus is split into the following classes:

Label	Documents (EN)	Documents (DE)
Lokal	1834	17256
Politik	8082	71999
Lifestyle	12647	19446
Sonstiges	22406	50997
Technologie	3014	24052
Ignore	346	3374
Aktuell	2116	1184
Sport	3226	24586
Wirtschaft	2060	52216
Kultur	1324	11563
Finanzen	115	13339
Ausland	16087	23928
Total	73257	313940

Metainformation

The corpus was build by crawling german and english news sites. To extract the information unfluff was used. Therefore all metainformation is available as it is extracted by unfluff.

• rssTitle: String
• source: String
• title: String
• site: String
• softTitle: String
• date: Date
• copyright: String
• author: [String]
• publisher: String
• copyright: String
• favicon: String
• description: String
• lang: String
• canonicalLink: String
• tags: [String]
• isage: String
• videos: [[URL]]
• links: [[URL]]
• text: String

Citing

If you find this corpus helpful in your research, consider citing this work:

@misc{Griesshaber2017,
  author = {Grie{\ss}haber, Daniel},
  title = {Multilingual News Corpus},
  year = {2017},
  publisher = {GitLab HdM Stuttgart},
  journal = {Git repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://gitlab.mi.hdm-stuttgart.de/griesshaber/german-news-corpus}}
}
      

Author

Daniel Grießhaber (Twitter/GitHub).

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