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Dataset Card for BrWaC

Dataset Summary

The BrWaC (Brazilian Portuguese Web as Corpus) is a large corpus constructed following the Wacky framework, which was made public for research purposes. The current corpus version, released in January 2017, is composed by 3.53 million documents, 2.68 billion tokens and 5.79 million types. Please note that this resource is available solely for academic research purposes, and you agreed not to use it for any commercial applications. No need to manually download external sources.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

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Languages

Portuguese

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

An example from the BrWaC dataset looks as follows:

{
  "doc_id": "netg-1afc73",
  "text": {
    "paragraphs": [
      [
        "Conteúdo recente"
      ],
      [
        "ESPUMA MARROM CHAMADA \"NINGUÉM MERECE\""
      ],
      [
        "31 de Agosto de 2015, 7:07 , por paulo soavinski - | No one following this article yet."
      ],
      [
        "Visualizado 202 vezes"
      ],
      [
        "JORNAL ELETRÔNICO DA ILHA DO MEL"
      ],
      [
        "Uma espuma marrom escuro tem aparecido com frequência na Praia de Fora.",
        "Na faixa de areia ela aparece disseminada e não chama muito a atenção.",
        "No Buraco do Aipo, com muitas pedras, ela aparece concentrada.",
        "É fácil saber que esta espuma estranha está lá, quando venta.",
        "Pequenos algodões de espuma começam a flutuar no espaço, pertinho da Praia do Saquinho.",
        "Quem pode ajudar na coleta deste material, envio a laboratório renomado e pagamento de análises, favor entrar em contato com o site."
      ]
    ]
  },
  "title": "ESPUMA MARROM CHAMADA ‟NINGUÉM MERECE‟ - paulo soavinski",
  "uri": "http://blogoosfero.cc/ilhadomel/pousadasilhadomel.com.br/espuma-marrom-chamada-ninguem-merece"
}

Data Fields

• doc_id: The document ID
• title: The document title
• uri: URI where the document was extracted from
• text: A list of document paragraphs (with a list of sentences in it as a list of strings)

Data Splits

The data is only split into train set with size of 3530796 samples.

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

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Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

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Who are the source language producers?

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Annotations

Annotation process

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Who are the annotators?

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Personal and Sensitive Information

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Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

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Discussion of Biases

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Other Known Limitations

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Additional Information

Dataset Curators

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Licensing Information

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Citation Information

@inproceedings{wagner2018brwac,
  title={The brwac corpus: A new open resource for brazilian portuguese},
  author={Wagner Filho, Jorge A and Wilkens, Rodrigo and Idiart, Marco and Villavicencio, Aline},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)},
  year={2018}
}