README.md

---
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

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  <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/0000.00000">
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[![Paper](https://img.shields.io/badge/arXiv-coming--soon-red)](https://arxiv.org/abs/0000.00000)
[![GitHub](https://img.shields.io/badge/GitHub-Code-blue)](https://github.com/dipta007/bengali-news-headline)

## 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

```python
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

```json
{
  "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

```bibtex
@article{Barta2025,
  title={Barta: A Large-Scale Bengali News Corpus for Headline Generation},
  author={Shubhashis Roy Dipta},
  year={2025}
}
```