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---
annotations_creators:
- machine-generated
language_creators:
- found
language:
- fr
license:
- unknown
multilinguality:
- monolingual
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- text2text-generation
- text-generation
- tabular-to-text
- summarization
- text-classification
task_ids:
- language-modeling
- multi-class-classification
- multi-label-classification
- topic-classification
pretty_name: COVID-19 French News dataset
language_bcp47:
- fr-FR
tags:
- conditional-text-generation
---
# 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 ([email protected])
### 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)