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Dataset Card Creation Guide
Table of Contents
- Dataset Description
- Dataset Structure
- Dataset Creation
- Considerations for Using the Data
- Additional Information
Dataset Description
- Homepage: N/A
- Repository: GitHub
- Paper: N/A
- Leaderboard: N/A
- Point of Contact: -
Dataset Summary
This is a classification dataset created from a subset of the Talk of Norway. This dataset contains text phrases from the political parties Fremskrittspartiet and Sosialistisk Venstreparti. The dataset is annotated with the party the speaker, as well as a timestamp. The classification task is to, simply by looking at the text, being able to predict is the speech was done by a representative from Fremskrittspartiet or from SV.
Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
This dataset is meant for classification.
The first model tested on this dataset was NB-BERT-base, claiming a F1-score of 81.9). The dataset was also used for testing the North-T5-models, where the XXL model ](https://huggingface.co/north/t5_xxl_NCC) claims a F1-score of 91.8.
Please note that some of the text-fields are quite long. Truncating the text fields, for instance when switching tokenizers, will also make the task harder.
Languages
The text in the dataset is in Norwegian.
Dataset Structure
Data Fields
text
: Text of a speechdate
: Date (YYYY-MM-DD
) the speech was heldlabel
: Political party the speaker was associated with at the time- 0
- 1
full_label
: Political party the speaker was associated with at the time- Fremskrittspartiet
- Sosialistisk Venstreparti
Data Splits
The dataset is split into a train
, validation
, and test
split with the following sizes:
Tain | Valid | Test | |
---|---|---|---|
Number of examples | 3600 | 1200 | 1200 |
The dataset is balanced on political party.
Dataset Creation
This dataset is based on the publicly available information by Norwegian Parliament (Storting) and created by the National Library of Norway AI-Lab to benchmark their language models.
Additional Information
The Talk of Norway dataset is also available at the LTG Talk-of-Norway Github.
Licensing Information
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Citation Information
The following article can be quoted when referring to this dataset, since it is the first study that are using the dataset for evaluating a language model:
@inproceedings{kummervold-etal-2021-operationalizing,
title = {Operationalizing a National Digital Library: The Case for a {N}orwegian Transformer Model},
author = {Kummervold, Per E and
De la Rosa, Javier and
Wetjen, Freddy and
Brygfjeld, Svein Arne",
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa)},
year = "2021",
address = "Reykjavik, Iceland (Online)",
publisher = {Link{"o}ping University Electronic Press, Sweden},
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.nodalida-main.3",
pages = "20--29",
abstract = "In this work, we show the process of building a large-scale training set from digital and digitized collections at a national library.
The resulting Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT)-based language model for Norwegian outperforms multilingual BERT (mBERT) models
in several token and sequence classification tasks for both Norwegian Bokm{aa}l and Norwegian Nynorsk. Our model also improves the mBERT performance for other
languages present in the corpus such as English, Swedish, and Danish. For languages not included in the corpus, the weights degrade moderately while keeping strong multilingual properties. Therefore,
we show that building high-quality models within a memory institution using somewhat noisy optical character recognition (OCR) content is feasible, and we hope to pave the way for other memory institutions to follow.",
}