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# Dataset Card for Interpress Turkish News Category Dataset (270K)

## Table of Contents
- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
  - [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
  - [Supported Tasks](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
  - [Languages](#languages)
- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
  - [Data Instances](#data-instances)
  - [Data Fields](#data-instances)
  - [Data Splits](#data-instances)
- [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)
  - [Discussion of Social Impact and Biases](#discussion-of-social-impact-and-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:** [Interpress](https://www.interpress.com/)
- **Point of Contact:** [Yavuz Komecoglu](mailto:yavuz.komecoglu@kodiks.com)

### Dataset Summary

Turkish News Category Dataset (270K) is a Turkish news data set consisting of 273601 news in 17 categories, compiled from printed media and news websites between 2010 and 2017 by the Interpress (https://www.interpress.com/) media monitoring company.

### Languages

The dataset is based on Turkish.

## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

A text classification dataset with 17 different news category. 

### Data Fields

[More Information Needed]

### Data Splits

The data is split into a training and testing. The split is organized as the following 

|           | Tain    | Test  |
|---------- | ------- | ----- |
|data split | 218,880 | 54,721|

## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

[More Information Needed]

### Source Data

[More Information Needed]

#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

Downloaded over 270,000 news from the printed media and news websites between 2010 and 2017 by the Interpress (https://www.interpress.com/) media monitoring company. This data collection compiled from print media and internet news is presented in its raw form. For this reason, it is appropriate to use it with careful pre-processing steps regarding various OCR errors and typos.


#### Who are the source language producers?

Turkish printed news sources and online news sites. 

### Annotations

The dataset does not contain any additional annotations.

#### Annotation process

[More Information Needed]

#### Who are the annotators?

[More Information Needed]

### Personal and Sensitive Information

[More Information Needed]

## Considerations for Using the Data

### Discussion of Social Impact and Biases

[More Information Needed]

### Other Known Limitations

[More Information Needed]

## Additional Information

### Dataset Curators

[More Information Needed]

### Licensing Information

[More Information Needed]

### Citation Information

[More Information Needed]

### Contributions

Thanks to [@basakbuluz](https://github.com/basakbuluz) for adding this dataset.