tugrulkaya/turkish-news-headlines

🇹🇷 Turkish News Headlines Dataset

Dataset Description

Turkish news headlines dataset for text classification tasks. Contains headlines from various news categories.

Dataset Summary

• —Language: Turkish (tr)
• —Task: Multi-class text classification
• —Total Examples: 1,500
• —Categories: 8
• —License: CC-BY-4.0

Categories

The dataset contains 8 news categories:

Dataset Structure

Data Fields

• —headline (string): News headline text
• —category (string): News category
• —date (string): Publication date (YYYY-MM-DD)
• —source (string): Data source
• —length (int): Character count
• —word_count (int): Word count

Data Splits

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load dataset
dataset = load_dataset("tugrulkaya/turkish-news-headlines")

# Access splits
train_data = dataset['train']
print(train_data[0])

# Example output:
# {
#   'headline': 'Yapay zeka teknolojileri hızla gelişiyor',
#   'category': 'teknoloji',
#   'date': '2024-06-15',
#   'source': 'manual_collection'
# }

Use Cases

✅ Text Classification

• —News categorization
• —Topic modeling
• —Headline generation

✅ NLP Research

• —Turkish language modeling
• —Sentiment analysis baseline
• —Transfer learning experiments

✅ Educational

• —ML course projects
• —NLP tutorials
• —Classification examples

Dataset Creation

Source Data

Headlines collected from public sources and manually curated.

Annotation Process

• —Manual category assignment
• —Quality control checks
• —Duplicate removal
• —Format standardization

Data Quality

• —✅ Balanced across categories
• —✅ No duplicates
• —✅ Clean formatting
• —✅ Consistent labeling

Limitations

• —Limited to Turkish language
• —Focused on news domain
• —Time period: 2023-2024
• —May not represent all news sources

Citation

@misc{kaya2024turkish-news-headlines,
  author = {Tuğrul Kaya},
  title = {Turkish News Headlines Dataset},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/tugrulkaya/turkish-news-headlines}}
}

License

This dataset is licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

Contact

• —Creator: Tuğrul Kaya
• —Hugging Face: @tugrulkaya
• —Issues: Report issues on the dataset page

Acknowledgments

• —Turkish NLP community
• —News sources (for public data)
• —Hugging Face for hosting

Last Updated: December 2024