---
license: odc-by
language:
- ar
tags:
- arabicf
- fineweb
- MSA
pretty_name: FineWeb2 MSA
size_categories:
- 10M<n<100M
---

# FineWeb2 MSA Arabic



![image/png](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/628f7a71dd993507cfcbe587/7QWU4U2orwaXAZGC3lWy0.png)


This is the MSA Arabic Portion of The [FineWeb2](https://huggingface.co/datasets/HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-2#additional-information) Dataset.

This dataset contains a rich collection of text in **MSA Arabic** (ISO 639-3: arz), a widely spoken dialect within the Afro-Asiatic language family. 

With over **439 million words** and **1.4 million** documents, it serves as a valuable resource for NLP development and linguistic research focused on Egyptian Arabic.



## Purpose of This Repository

This repository provides easy access to the **Arabic portion - MSA** of the extensive **FineWeb2** dataset. My primary goal is to make this valuable data more accessible and impactful for researchers, developers, and anyone working on **Arabic** natural language processing (NLP) projects.

By focusing on Arabic, I aim to:

- **Simplify Access**: Provide a direct and streamlined way to download the Arabic portion of the dataset without navigating through the larger collection.  
- **Promote Research**: Enable more efficient use of  Arabic text data for NLP, LLMs, and linguistic research.  
- **Empower the Community**: Support Arabic language processing and contribute to the growth of multilingual NLP capabilities.  
- **Encourage Collaboration**: Foster an environment where researchers and developers can build impactful applications using Arabic data.  


## Credit to the Original Work

The dataset is released under the [Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC-By) v1.0](https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1-0/), with additional usage subject to CommonCrawl's Terms of Use.. 

### Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite it as follows:

```bibtex
@software{penedo2024fineweb-2,
  author = {Penedo, Guilherme and Kydlíček, Hynek and Sabolčec, Vinko and Messmer, Bettina and Foroutan, Negar and Jaggi, Martin and von Werra, Leandro and Wolf, Thomas},
  title = {FineWeb2: A sparkling update with 1000s of languages},
  month = dec,
  year = 2024,
  doi = {10.57967/hf/3744},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-2}
}