momentum-lab/news-categories

English News Headline Dataset

Overview

This dataset contains 50,000 English news headlines categorized into 10 topical classes, designed for text classification and NLP studies such as news topic modeling, transfer learning, and zero‑shot evaluation.

Each record includes:

• —title: news headline text
• —topic: one of ten predefined categories
• —genre: one of four predefined descriptor of the story style (e.g., Informational, Analysis)
• —source: media outlet name
• —date: publication timestamp (ISO‑8601 format)

This dataset was curated as part of the COMP7015 Artificial Intelligence Course Project (2025) to explore multi‑class text classification with deep learning.

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