esCorpius: A Massive Spanish Crawling Corpus

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In the recent years, Transformer-based models have lead to significant advances in language modelling for natural language processing. However, they require a vast amount of data to be (pre-)trained and there is a lack of corpora in languages other than English. Recently, several initiatives have presented multilingual datasets obtained from automatic web crawling. However, the results in Spanish present important shortcomings, as they are either too small in comparison with other languages, or present a low quality derived from sub-optimal cleaning and deduplication. In this paper, we introduce esCorpius, a Spanish crawling corpus obtained from near 1 Pb of Common Crawl data. It is the most extensive corpus in Spanish with this level of quality in the extraction, purification and deduplication of web textual content. Our data curation process involves a novel highly parallel cleaning pipeline and encompasses a series of deduplication mechanisms that together ensure the integrity of both document and paragraph boundaries. Additionally, we maintain both the source web page URL and the WARC shard origin URL in order to complain with EU regulations. esCorpius has been released under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.

Identifier
PID http://hdl.handle.net/11234/1-4807
Related Identifier https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.15147.pdf
Related Identifier https://huggingface.co/datasets/LHF/escorpius
Metadata Access http://lindat.mff.cuni.cz/repository/oai/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai:lindat.mff.cuni.cz:11372/LRT-4807
Provenance
Creator Asier, Gutiérrez-Fandiño; David, Pérez-Fernández; Jordi, Armengol-Estapé; David, Griol; Zoraida, Callejas
Publisher LHF Labs
Publication Year 2022
Rights Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0); http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/; PUB
OpenAccess true
Contact lindat-help(at)ufal.mff.cuni.cz
Representation
Language Spanish; Castilian
Resource Type corpus
Format text/plain; charset=utf-8; application/octet-stream; application/x-gzip; downloadable_files_count: 35
Discipline Linguistics