metadata
license: mit
task_categories:
- text-classification
language:
- en
size_categories:
- 100K<n<1M
source_datasets:
- original
configs:
- config_name: default
data_files:
- split: train
path: train.zip
- split: validation
path: val.zip
- split: test
path: test.zip
pretty_name: MSC
Dataset Description
The text data (title and abstract) of 164,230 arXiv preprints which are associated with at least one MSC (mathematical subject classification) code. Predicting 3-character MSC codes based on the cleaned text (processed title+abstarct) amounts to a multi-label classification task.
Dataset Structure
- The column
cleaned_text
should be used as the input of the text classification task. This is obtained from processing the text data (titles and abstracts) of math-related preprints. - The last 531 columns are one-hot encoded MSC classes, and should be used as target variables of the multi-label classification task.
- Other columns are auxiliary:
url
) the URL of the preprint (the latest version as of December 2023),title
) the original title,abstract
) the original abstract,primary_category
) the primary arXiv category (for this data, almost always a category of the math archive, or the mathematical physics archive).
- Subtask) Predicting
primary_category
based oncleaned_text
, a multi-class text classification task with ~30 distinct labels.
Data Splits
Stratified sampling was used for splitting the data so that the proportions of a target variable among the splits are not very different.
Dataset | Description | Number of instances |
---|---|---|
main.zip | the whole data | 164,230 |
train.zip | the training set | 104,675 |
val.zip | the validation set | 18,540 |
test.zip | the test set | 41,015 |
Data Collection and Cleaning
The details are outlined in this notebook. As for the raw data, with the help of the arxiv package, we scraped preprints listed, or cross-listed, under the math archive. This raw data was then processed:
- dropping preprints with an abnormally high number of versions,
- keeping only the last arXiv version,
- dropping preprints whose metadata does not include any MSC class,
- dropping entries with pre-2010 mathematics subject classification convention,
- concatenating abstract and title strings and carrying out the following steps to obtain the
cleaned_text
column:- removing the LaTeX math environment and URL citations,
- make the text lower case, normalizing accents and removing special characters,
- removing English and some corpus-specific stop words,
- stemming.