---
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
  - split: dev
    path: data/dev-*
  - split: test
    path: data/test-*
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: cloi
    dtype: string
  - name: abstract
    dtype: string
  - name: title
    dtype: string
  - name: org_discipline
    sequence: string
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 6288276
    num_examples: 6517
  - name: dev
    num_bytes: 3162725
    num_examples: 3272
  - name: test
    num_bytes: 3140629
    num_examples: 3245
  download_size: 7170739
  dataset_size: 12591630
license: cc-by-4.0
language:
- nl
---
This dataset is based on the *VABB* dataset, the Flemish Academic Bibliography for the Social Sciences and Humanities.

## Citation Information

If you find our paper, benchmark or models helpful, please consider cite as follows:
```latex
@misc{banar2025mtebnle5nlembeddingbenchmark,
      title={MTEB-NL and E5-NL: Embedding Benchmark and Models for Dutch}, 
      author={Nikolay Banar and Ehsan Lotfi and Jens Van Nooten and Cristina Arhiliuc and Marija Kliocaite and Walter Daelemans},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2509.12340},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12340}, 
}
```
[//]: # (https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12340)

The data source:

```latex
@misc{aspeslagh2024vabbshw_blx,
  author   = {Aspeslagh, P. and Guns, R. and Engels, T. C. E.},
  title    = {{VABB-SHW}: Dataset of Flemish Academic Bibliography for the Social Sciences and Humanities},
  version  = {edition 14},
  year     = {2024},
  publisher= {Zenodo},
  doi      = {10.5281/zenodo.14214806},
  url      = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14214806},
  urldate  = {2025-08-14},
  type     = {Data set}
}

```