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news20 (NewsWeeder: learning to filter netnews)
Two datasets featuring binary and multi-class classification. The datasets were first introduced by K. Lang [1]. They can, for instance, be accessed at https://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvmtools/datasets/.
[1] K. Lang, “NewsWeeder: learning to filter netnews,” in Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on International Conference on Machine Learning, A. Prieditis and S. Russell, Eds., Tahoe City, CA, USA: Morgan Kaufmann, Jul. 1995, pp. 331–339. doi: 10.1016/B978-1-55860-377-6.50048-7.
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