IGC2024-Filtered-2
Authors: Jón Friðrik Daðason, Steinþór Steingrímsson and Hinrik Hafsteinsson
Item identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12537/382
Published by: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, March 31, 2026
Description in English
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This is a JSONL version of the 2024 release of the Icelandic Gigaword Corpus (IGC), prepared for language model training. The archive contains training and validation sets of unannotated documents from the IGC, licensed using the IGC license.
The corpus has been filtered, deduplicated, and normalized to remove content unsuitable for training. Documents were excluded if they contained unintended code (e.g., HTML, CSS, or JavaScript), optical character recognition errors, character encoding issues, highly repetitive n-gram sequences, or a very low word count, or if they were duplicates or near-duplicates of other documents in the IGC. In addition, recurring boilerplate text, such as lists of related articles and social media shari . . .