---
license: other
license_name: 20minuten-copyright-notice
license_link: LICENSE
language:
  - de
  - fr
tags:
  - news
  - comparable
  - comparable corpus
  - parallel
  - bitext
pretty_name: 20min-XD

configs:
  - config_name: articles
    data_files: "data/articles.tsv"
  - config_name: sentences
    data_files: "data/sentences.tsv"
---

# *20min-XD*: A Comparable Corpus of Swiss News Articles

## Dataset Summary

*20min-XD* (**20 Min**uten **cross**-lingual **d**ocument-level) is a comparable corpus of Swiss news articles in German and French, collected from the online editions of [20 Minuten](20min.ch) and [20 minutes](20min.ch/fr) between 2015 and 2024. The dataset consists of 15,000 semantically aligned German and French article pairs. Unlike parallel corpora, *20min-XD* captures a broad spectrum of cross-lingual similarity, ranging from near-translations to related articles covering the same event. This dataset is intended for non-commercial research use only – please refer to the accompanying license/copyright notice for details.

## Details
* Languages: German (de), French (fr)
* Available versions:
  * Document level: Contains full article pairs.
    * Size: 15,000 article pairs
  * Sentence level: Contains alignable sentences from the 15'000 article pairs. Note that all alignable sentences are contained in this dataset without considering a similarity threshold. We recommend, setting a similarity threshold (e.g.: 79) to filter for semantically similar sentences.
    * Size: 117,126 sentence pairs
* The datasets contain the following information:
  * Document level:
    * ```id_de/fr```: unique article ID
    * ```score```: cosine similarity score
    * ```content_id_de/fr```: content ID
    * ```pubtime_de/fr```: time of publication
    * ```article_link_de/fr```: link to the online news article
    * ```medium_code_de/fr```: abbreviation for the name of the news outlet 
    * ```medium_name_de/fr```: full name of the news outlet 
    * ```language_de/fr```: language code
    * ```char_count_de/fr```: character count of the content
    * ```head_de/fr```: article head text
    * ```subhead_de/fr```: article subhead text
    * ```content_de/fr```: article content text

  * Sentence level:
    * ```id_de/fr```: unique sentence ID
    * ```score```: cosine similarity score
    * ```sentence_id_de/fr```: document internal sentence ID
    * ```aligned_article_id_de/fr```: document ID
    * ```sentence_de/fr```: sentence
    * ```char_count_de/fr```: character count of the sentence
    * ```char_count_diff```: absolute difference between character counts of German and French sentence