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SetFit/bbc-news

Name: bbc-news
Creator: SetFit
Keywords: task_categories:text-classification, language:en, size_categories:1K<n<10K, format:json, modality:text, library:datasets, library:pandas, library:mlcroissant, library:polars, region:us

BBC News Topic Dataset Dataset on BBC News Topic Classification consisting of 2,225 articles published on the BBC News website corresponding during 2004-2005. Each article is labeled under one of 5 categories: business, entertainment, politics, sport or tech. Original source for this dataset: Derek Greene, Pádraig Cunningham, “Practical Solutions to the Problem of Diagonal Dominance in Kernel Document Clustering,” in Proc. 23rd International Conference on Machine learning… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/SetFit/bbc-news.

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Author / organization	SetFit
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Created	2 March 2022
Last updated at source	4 July 2024

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16 Oct 2026 Description: BBC News Topic Dataset Dataset on BBC News Topic Classification consisting of 2,225 articles published on the BBC News website corresponding during 2004-2005. Each article is labeled under one of 5 categories: business, entertainment, polit → BBC News Topic Dataset Dataset on BBC News Topic Classification consisting of 2,225 articles published on the BBC News website corresponding during 2004-2005. Each article is labeled under one of 5 categories: business, entertainment, polit

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