HeadlineClassification

An MTEB dataset

Massive Text Embedding Benchmark

Headline rubric classification based on the paraphraser plus dataset.

Task category	t2c
Domains	News, Written
Reference	https://aclanthology.org/2020.ngt-1.6/

How to evaluate on this task

You can evaluate an embedding model on this dataset using the following code:

import mteb

task = mteb.get_tasks(["HeadlineClassification"])
evaluator = mteb.MTEB(task)

model = mteb.get_model(YOUR_MODEL)
evaluator.run(model)

To learn more about how to run models on mteb task check out the GitHub repitory.

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite the dataset as well as mteb, as this dataset likely includes additional processing as a part of the MMTEB Contribution.

@inproceedings{gudkov-etal-2020-automatically,
  abstract = {The article is focused on automatic development and ranking of a large corpus for Russian paraphrase generation which proves to be the first corpus of such type in Russian computational linguistics. Existing manually annotated paraphrase datasets for Russian are limited to small-sized ParaPhraser corpus and ParaPlag which are suitable for a set of NLP tasks, such as paraphrase and plagiarism detection, sentence similarity and relatedness estimation, etc. Due to size restrictions, these datasets can hardly be applied in end-to-end text generation solutions. Meanwhile, paraphrase generation requires a large amount of training data. In our study we propose a solution to the problem: we collect, rank and evaluate a new publicly available headline paraphrase corpus (ParaPhraser Plus), and then perform text generation experiments with manual evaluation on automatically ranked corpora using the Universal Transformer architecture.},
  address = {Online},
  author = {Gudkov, Vadim  and
Mitrofanova, Olga  and
Filippskikh, Elizaveta},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Neural Generation and Translation},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2020.ngt-1.6},
  editor = {Birch, Alexandra  and
Finch, Andrew  and
Hayashi, Hiroaki  and
Heafield, Kenneth  and
Junczys-Dowmunt, Marcin  and
Konstas, Ioannis  and
Li, Xian  and
Neubig, Graham  and
Oda, Yusuke},
  month = jul,
  pages = {54--59},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  title = {Automatically Ranked {R}ussian Paraphrase Corpus for Text Generation},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2020.ngt-1.6},
  year = {2020},
}


@article{enevoldsen2025mmtebmassivemultilingualtext,
  title={MMTEB: Massive Multilingual Text Embedding Benchmark},
  author={Kenneth Enevoldsen and Isaac Chung and Imene Kerboua and Márton Kardos and Ashwin Mathur and David Stap and Jay Gala and Wissam Siblini and Dominik Krzemiński and Genta Indra Winata and Saba Sturua and Saiteja Utpala and Mathieu Ciancone and Marion Schaeffer and Gabriel Sequeira and Diganta Misra and Shreeya Dhakal and Jonathan Rystrøm and Roman Solomatin and Ömer Çağatan and Akash Kundu and Martin Bernstorff and Shitao Xiao and Akshita Sukhlecha and Bhavish Pahwa and Rafał Poświata and Kranthi Kiran GV and Shawon Ashraf and Daniel Auras and Björn Plüster and Jan Philipp Harries and Loïc Magne and Isabelle Mohr and Mariya Hendriksen and Dawei Zhu and Hippolyte Gisserot-Boukhlef and Tom Aarsen and Jan Kostkan and Konrad Wojtasik and Taemin Lee and Marek Šuppa and Crystina Zhang and Roberta Rocca and Mohammed Hamdy and Andrianos Michail and John Yang and Manuel Faysse and Aleksei Vatolin and Nandan Thakur and Manan Dey and Dipam Vasani and Pranjal Chitale and Simone Tedeschi and Nguyen Tai and Artem Snegirev and Michael Günther and Mengzhou Xia and Weijia Shi and Xing Han Lù and Jordan Clive and Gayatri Krishnakumar and Anna Maksimova and Silvan Wehrli and Maria Tikhonova and Henil Panchal and Aleksandr Abramov and Malte Ostendorff and Zheng Liu and Simon Clematide and Lester James Miranda and Alena Fenogenova and Guangyu Song and Ruqiya Bin Safi and Wen-Ding Li and Alessia Borghini and Federico Cassano and Hongjin Su and Jimmy Lin and Howard Yen and Lasse Hansen and Sara Hooker and Chenghao Xiao and Vaibhav Adlakha and Orion Weller and Siva Reddy and Niklas Muennighoff},
  publisher = {arXiv},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.13595},
  year={2025},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13595},
  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2502.13595},
}

@article{muennighoff2022mteb,
  author = {Muennighoff, Niklas and Tazi, Nouamane and Magne, Lo{\"\i}c and Reimers, Nils},
  title = {MTEB: Massive Text Embedding Benchmark},
  publisher = {arXiv},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.07316},
  year = {2022}
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.07316},
  doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2210.07316},
}

Dataset Statistics

Dataset Statistics

The following code contains the descriptive statistics from the task. These can also be obtained using:

import mteb

task = mteb.get_task("HeadlineClassification")

desc_stats = task.metadata.descriptive_stats

{
    "test": {
        "num_samples": 2048,
        "number_of_characters": 127763,
        "number_texts_intersect_with_train": 0,
        "min_text_length": 13,
        "average_text_length": 62.38427734375,
        "max_text_length": 173,
        "unique_text": 2048,
        "unique_labels": 6,
        "labels": {
            "1": {
                "count": 342
            },
            "0": {
                "count": 341
            },
            "4": {
                "count": 341
            },
            "2": {
                "count": 341
            },
            "3": {
                "count": 341
            },
            "5": {
                "count": 342
            }
        }
    },
    "train": {
        "num_samples": 36000,
        "number_of_characters": 2232586,
        "number_texts_intersect_with_train": null,
        "min_text_length": 2,
        "average_text_length": 62.01627777777778,
        "max_text_length": 501,
        "unique_text": 36000,
        "unique_labels": 6,
        "labels": {
            "0": {
                "count": 6000
            },
            "2": {
                "count": 6000
            },
            "1": {
                "count": 6000
            },
            "4": {
                "count": 6000
            },
            "5": {
                "count": 6000
            },
            "3": {
                "count": 6000
            }
        }
    }
}

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