2022

News Category Dataset

Misra, Rishabh

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People rely on news to know what is happening around the world and inform their daily lives.

  • In today's world, when the proliferation of fake news is rampant, having a large-scale and high-quality source of authentic news articles with the published category information is valuable to learning authentic news' Natural Language syntax and semantics.
  • As part of this work, we present a News Category Dataset that contains around 210k news headlines from the year 2012 to 2022 obtained from HuffPost, along with useful metadata to enable various NLP tasks.
  • In this paper, we also produce some novel insights from the dataset and describe various existing and potential applications of our dataset.

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