---
license: apache-2.0
task_categories:
- text-classification
- summarization
- sentence-similarity
language:
- en
tags:
- legal
- art
- finance
- biology
- climate
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
---
We have made the audio files available here: https://huggingface.co/datasets/sleeping4cat/debate-audio
Please,  use link2media Python library to download LAION-Debate in the desired format (.mp3, .mp4) If needed email sleeping4cat@gmail.com or tawsif.ahmed@science.ru.nl

#### Instructions
1. Convert the CSV files to text (.txt) file for the link2media library to handle them and download (remove header)
2. file name reflects the **date when it was indexed and name of the institution** (CAM = Cambridge Union and Ox = Oxford Union)
3. Please, cite this HF dataset if you use the dataset inside your work. If you use link2media library, cite that as well.
4. We update the links after every 2 quarters.


**Library:** https://pypi.org/project/link2media/1.1.1/

<pre>
@cite{LAION Debate,
  author = {tawsif ahmed, LAION},
  title = {LAION-Debate: World's first large Competitive Debate dataset},
  year = {2024},
  published = <a href="https://laion.ai/notes/laion-debate/">https://laion.ai/notes/laion-debate/</a>,
}
</pre>