---
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: datetime
    dtype: string
  - name: title
    dtype: string
  - name: content
    dtype: string
  - name: label
    dtype: string
  - name: url
    dtype: string
  - name: text
    dtype: string
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 20022132
    num_examples: 5600
  - name: validation
    num_bytes: 4212102
    num_examples: 1200
  - name: test
    num_bytes: 4236296
    num_examples: 1200
  download_size: 17480183
  dataset_size: 28470530
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
  - split: validation
    path: data/validation-*
  - split: test
    path: data/test-*
license: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
language:
- nl
---

This dataset contains Dutch news articles along with their corresponding categories, sourced from the Nederlandse Oproep Stichting.

## Citation Information

If you find our paper, benchmark or models helpful, please consider cite as follows:
```latex
@misc{banar2025mtebnle5nlembeddingbenchmark,
      title={MTEB-NL and E5-NL: Embedding Benchmark and Models for Dutch}, 
      author={Nikolay Banar and Ehsan Lotfi and Jens Van Nooten and Cristina Arhiliuc and Marija Kliocaite and Walter Daelemans},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2509.12340},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12340}, 
}
```
[//]: # (https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12340)

The data source:

```latex
@misc{max_scheijen_2022,
	title={Dutch News Articles},
	url={https://www.kaggle.com/ds/1013130},
	DOI={10.34740/KAGGLE/DS/1013130},
	publisher={Kaggle},
	author={Max Scheijen},
	year={2022}
}
```