Dataset Card for enwik8

Dataset Summary

The enwik8 dataset is the first 100,000,000 (100M) bytes of the English Wikipedia XML dump on Mar. 3, 2006 and is typically used to measure a model's ability to compress data.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

A leaderboard for byte-level causal language modelling can be found on paperswithcode

Languages

en

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

• Size of downloaded dataset files: 36.45 MB
• Size of the generated dataset: 102.38 MB
• Total amount of disk used: 138.83 MB

{
   "text": "In [[Denmark]], the [[Freetown Christiania]] was created in downtown [[Copenhagen]]....",
}

Data Fields

The data fields are the same among all sets.

enwik8

• text : a string feature.

enwik8-raw

• text : a string feature.

Data Splits

dataset	train
enwik8	1128024
enwik8- raw	1

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

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Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

The data is just English Wikipedia XML dump on Mar. 3, 2006 split by line for enwik8 and not split by line for enwik8-raw.

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

Dataset is not part of a publication, and can therefore not be cited.

Contributions

Thanks to @HallerPatrick for adding this dataset and @mtanghu for updating it.