metadata
license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
- text-generation
- summarization
language:
- bn
tags:
- bengali
- news
- headline-generation
- pretraining
- nlp
size_categories:
- 1M<n<10M
Barta: Bengali News Corpus
Overview
Barta (বার্তা, "news" in Bengali) is a large-scale Bengali news corpus containing 1.7M articles from multiple Bangladeshi news sources, spanning diverse categories including politics, sports, entertainment, technology, and more.
Key features:
- 1.7M articles from major Bangladeshi news outlets
- Diverse categories covering national, international, sports, entertainment, technology, lifestyle, etc.
- Structured fields including headline, article body, source, and category
- Deduplicated and cleaned via content hashing
Dataset Statistics
| Split | Rows |
|---|---|
| train | 1,708,308 |
Loading the Dataset
from datasets import load_dataset
# Load full dataset
dataset = load_dataset("dipta007/Barta", split="train")
# Stream without downloading
dataset = load_dataset("dipta007/Barta", split="train", streaming=True)
Data Fields
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
id |
string | Unique identifier (e.g., bd-pratidin-1196327) |
article |
string | Full article body in Bengali |
headline |
string | Article headline in Bengali |
source |
string | News outlet name (e.g., bd-pratidin, prothom-alo) |
category |
string | News category in Bengali (e.g., জাতীয়, খেলা, বিনোদন) |
Example
{
"id": "bd-pratidin-1196327",
"source": "bd-pratidin",
"category": "দেশগ্রাম",
"headline": "বগুড়ায় মাদককারবারীকে গ্রেফতার করল পুলিশ",
"article": "বগুড়ায় ৩০ হাজার পিস ইয়াবা ট্যাবলেটসহ মো. শামিম (৩০) নামের এক মাদককারবারীকে গ্রেফতার করেছে হাইওয়ে পুলিশ..."
}
Intended Use
- Pretraining Bengali language models
- Headline generation training and evaluation
- Text summarization for Bengali
- News categorization and topic modeling
- Bengali NLP research and benchmarking
Source
Crawled from major Bangladeshi news websites. Articles are deduplicated by content hash to remove exact duplicates.
Citation
@article{Barta2025,
title={Barta: A Large-Scale Bengali News Corpus for Headline Generation},
author={Shubhashis Roy Dipta},
year={2025}
}