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New RefinedGAW dataset offers specialized German academic web content

Researchers have introduced RefinedGAW, a new dataset of German academic web content designed to offer greater domain specificity than broad web crawls. The dataset comprises 122 million documents and 314 billion tokens, with 84% identified as academic research, educational, or expert-oriented content, and minimal commercial bias. RefinedGAW's 87.6 billion tokens of academic research content surpass the German subsets of FineWeb2 and FinePDFs, despite those datasets being significantly larger. The project also provides a queryable metadata index and a tool for retrieving and processing source documents. AI

IMPACT Provides a specialized dataset for training AI models on German academic content, potentially improving performance in domain-specific tasks.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new academic dataset published on arXiv.

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Maximilian Idahl, Oleh Astappiev, Benedikt Droste, Robert Scholz, Bj\"orn Pl\"uster, Jan Philipp Harries, Robert J\"aschke, Wolfgang Nejdl ·

    RefinedGAW: A Refined German Academic Web Dataset

    arXiv:2610.34572v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The largest open German text datasets are built from broad web crawls, which provide scale but limited coverage of specific domains. We introduce RefinedGAW, a processed and annotated resource derived from 26 semi-annual crawls of t…

  2. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Wolfgang Nejdl ·

    RefinedGAW: A Refined German Academic Web Dataset

    The largest open German text datasets are built from broad web crawls, which provide scale but limited coverage of specific domains. We introduce RefinedGAW, a processed and annotated resource derived from 26 semi-annual crawls of the German Academic Web, totaling 122 million doc…