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### Dataset Summary
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This dataset contains text extracted at the page level from historic digitised newspapers from the [Heritage Made Digital](https://bl.iro.bl.uk/collections/9a6a4cdd-2bfe-47bb-8c14-c0a5d100501f?locale=en) newspaper digitisation program. The newspapers in the dataset
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The data was primarily created as a dataset for training 'time-aware' language models.
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#### Breakdown of word counts over time
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| year | total word_count | unique words |
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| 1800 | 282,554,255 | 15,506,515 |
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### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
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### Languages
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### Dataset Summary
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This dataset contains text extracted at the page level from historic digitised newspapers from the [Heritage Made Digital](https://bl.iro.bl.uk/collections/9a6a4cdd-2bfe-47bb-8c14-c0a5d100501f?locale=en) newspaper digitisation program. The newspapers in the dataset were published between 1800 and 1870.
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The data was primarily created as a dataset for training 'time-aware' language models.
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#### Breakdown of word counts over time
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Whilst the dataset covers a time period between 1800 and 1870, the number of words in the dataset is not distributed evenly across time in this dataset. The figures below give a sense of the breakdown over time in terms of the number of words which appear in the dataset.
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| year | total word_count | unique words |
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| 1800 | 282,554,255 | 15,506,515 |
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### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
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### Languages
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