CCNet: Extracting High Quality Monolingual Datasets from Web Crawl Data

Guillaume Wenzek, Marie-Anne Lachaux, Alexis Conneau, Vishrav Chaudhary, Francisco Guzmán, Armand Joulin, Edouard Grave


Abstract
Pre-training text representations have led to significant improvements in many areas of natural language processing. The quality of these models benefits greatly from the size of the pretraining corpora as long as its quality is preserved. In this paper, we describe an automatic pipeline to extract massive high-quality monolingual datasets from Common Crawl for a variety of languages. Our pipeline follows the data processing introduced in fastText (Mikolov et al., 2017; Grave et al., 2018), that deduplicates documents and identifies their language. We augment this pipeline with a filtering step to select documents that are close to high quality corpora like Wikipedia.
Anthology ID:
2020.lrec-1.494
Volume:
Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
May
Year:
2020
Address:
Marseille, France
Editors:
Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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Publisher:
European Language Resources Association
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Pages:
4003–4012
Language:
English
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.494
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Cite (ACL):
Guillaume Wenzek, Marie-Anne Lachaux, Alexis Conneau, Vishrav Chaudhary, Francisco Guzmán, Armand Joulin, and Edouard Grave. 2020. CCNet: Extracting High Quality Monolingual Datasets from Web Crawl Data. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 4003–4012, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
Cite (Informal):
CCNet: Extracting High Quality Monolingual Datasets from Web Crawl Data (Wenzek et al., LREC 2020)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.494.pdf
Code
 facebookresearch/cc_net +  additional community code
Data
CCNetXNLI