The Best Dutch Language Datasets of 2022

Dutch is one of the most commonly spoken languages in the world. That being said, it’s not always easy to find Dutch language datasets to train your models. 

That’s why we’ve done the hard bit for you. Here at Twine, we’ve searched high and low to find the best Dutch Language datasets.

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Here are our top picks for Dutch Language datasets:

1. CC100-Dutch Dataset

This dataset is one of the 100 corpora of monolingual data that was processed from the January-December 2018 Commoncrawl snapshots from the CC-Net repository. The size of this corpus is 7.9G, exclusively in the Dutch language. Contains Text files.

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2. Dutch Book Reviews Dataset

Created by van der Burgh in 2019, the Dutch Book Reviews Dataset contains book reviews along with associated binary sentiment polarity labels, exclusively in the Dutch language. Containing 118,516 Text files.

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3. Personae Corpus Dataset

Created by Luyckx in 2008, the Personae Corpus was collected for experiments in Authorship Attribution and Personality Prediction. Consists of 145 Dutch-language essays, exclusively in the Dutch language. Contains 145 Text files.

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4. Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning Dataset

Created by Tjong in 2002, the Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2002) dataset is a collection of newswire articles made available by the EFE News Agency. The Dutch data consist of four editions of the Belgian newspaper “De Morgen” of 2000. IOB2 format, exclusively in the Dutch language. Contains HTML files.

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5. SICK-NL Dataset

The SICK-NL Dataset targets Natural Language Inference in Dutch. SICK-NL is obtained by translating the SICK dataset of Marelli et al. (2014) from English into Dutch. Both monolingual and multilingual NLP models are compared, for English and Dutch, on the two tasks. Exclusively in the Dutch language. Contains Text files.

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6. CELEX Dataset

CELEX database comprises three different searchable lexical databases, Dutch, English, and German. The lexical data contained in each database is divided into five categories: orthography, phonology, morphology, syntax (word class), and word frequency. Contains HTML/Text files.

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7. DpgMedia2019

DpgMedia2019 is a Dutch news dataset for partisanship detection. It contains more than 100K articles that are labeled on the publisher level and 776 articles that were crowdsourced using an internal survey platform and labeled on the article level.

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Wrapping up

To conclude, here are top picks for the best Dutch Language Speech datasets for your projects:

1. CC100-Dutch Dataset
2. Dutch Book Reviews Dataset
3. Personae Corpus Dataset
4. Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning Dataset
5. SICK-NL Dataset
6. CELEX Dataset
7. DpgMedia2019

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