---
pretty_name: Hestenettet (Danish debate forum)
language:
  - da
license: cc0-1.0
license_name: CC-0
size_categories:
  - 10k-100k
task_categories:
  - text-generation
  - fill-mask
task_ids:
  - language-modeling
source_datasets:
  - danish-foundation-models/danish-gigaword
---

# Dataset Card for Hestenettet

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Samples from the Danish debate forum www.heste-nettet.dk.
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The forum have been in use since 1997 and it is used as a debate forum covering a wide range of everyday topics. 

Its inclusion as training data for large language models have multiple times reached [national news](https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/viden/teknologi/heste-nettet-kan-blive-grundlag-kunstig-intelligens-paa-dansk).

## Dataset Description

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- **Language**: dan, dansk, Danish
- **Number of samples**: 14.39K
- **Number of tokens (Llama 3)**: 389.33M
- **Average document length (characters)**: 82950.79

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## Dataset Sturcture
An example from the dataset looks as follows.

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## Additional Information


### Citation Information

This dataset was initially published as part of the [Danish gigaword](https://huggingface.co/danish-foundation-models). We recommend that you cite and reference it if you use this dataset:

> Derczynski, L., Ciosici, M. R., et al. (2021). The Danish Gigaword Corpus. In Proceedings of the 23rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa 2021).

```bash
@inproceedings{dagw,
 title = {{The Danish Gigaword Corpus}},
 author = {Leon Derczynski and Manuel R. Ciosici and Rebekah Baglini and Morten H. Christiansen and Jacob Aarup Dalsgaard and Riccardo Fusaroli and Peter Juel Henrichsen and Rasmus Hvingelby and Andreas Kirkedal and Alex Speed Kjeldsen and Claus Ladefoged and Finn Årup Nielsen and Jens Madsen and Malte Lau Petersen and Jonathan Hvithamar Rystrøm and Daniel Varab},
 year = 2021,
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics},
 publisher = {NEALT}
}
```