README.md

metadata

language:
  - kk
license: cc-by-nc-4.0
size_categories:
  - n<1K
task_categories:
  - text-generation
  - fill-mask
tags:
  - kazakh
  - news
  - nlp
  - qazaqsha

Kazakh Clean News Dataset 🇰🇿

Dataset Description

This dataset contains thoroughly cleaned Kazakh language articles collected from leading news and information portals in Kazakhstan. The data was specifically prepared for Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, pre-training, and fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) in the Kazakh language.

Key Features: All HTML code, advertisements, social media buttons, short news snippets, and subscription prompts have been strictly filtered out. Only high-quality, long-form text content (longreads and full articles with a minimum length of 500 characters) has been retained.

Sources

The data was collected from the following open sources:

• Tengrinews.kz (Categories: Society, Politics, World, Crime)
• Informburo.kz (Categories: Society, Economics)
• Abai.kz (Author posts and articles)

Dataset Structure

The dataset is provided in JSONL (JSON Lines) format. Each line represents a single JSON object (one article).

Data Example:

{ "source": "kaz.tengrinews.kz", "url": "https://kaz.tengrinews.kz/kazakhstan_news/...", "title": "Қазақстанда жаңа заң қабылданды", "text": "Парламент депутаттары жаңа заң жобасын мақұлдады. Бұл заң... (and the rest of the article)" }

Data Fields:

• source (string): The domain name of the source website.
• url (string): Direct URL to the original article.
• title (string): The title of the article (cleaned).
• text (string): The main body text, entirely cleaned of HTML tags, scripts, styles, and ad blocks.

Limitations & Disclaimer

All rights to the original texts belong to their respective authors and news publications. This dataset was scraped and compiled solely for educational and research purposes (Fair Use) to advance Artificial Intelligence in the Kazakh language. The CC-BY-NC-4.0 license prohibits the use of this dataset for direct commercial purposes without the explicit permission of the original copyright holders.

Author

Created by kurumikz.