The RUWA (Russian-Ukraine WAr) dataset includes more than 16,500 news articles from several media outlets in Ukraine, Russia, European, Asia, and the USA covering the nine Russian-Ukraine war events from February 2022 to September 2022. Table 1 and table 2 show the article distributions by selected news outlets and events.
| Sources | Articles |
|---|---|
| AlJazeera.com | 600 |
| BBC.co.uk | 550 |
| Censor.net | 5094 |
| En.News-front.info | 94 |
| MsNBC.com | 506 |
| Reuter.com | 1993 |
| RT.com | 940 |
| Ukinform.net | 6749 |
| Tass.com | 34 |
| Event | Description | Articles |
|---|---|---|
| Azovstal | 1817 | |
| Begining | 6490 | |
| Bucha | 1431 | |
| Nuclear | Nuclear Plant | 3385 |
| Prisoners | 583 | |
| Railway | 1486 | |
| Sinking | Mosdva Sinking | 184 |
| Supermarket | 441 | |
| Theatre | Mariupol Theatre | 761 |
| Name | Discription |
|---|---|
| src | URL |
| title | |
| Date | publication date |
| Site | Site of an article |
| Event | Event name |
| KW | key words |
To not violate the copyright of the articles, we do not share them in their original format, but we include a link to the original article.
The preprocessing of the articles includes:
- removing stop words by NLTK;
- removing stop words by SpaCy";
- removing all kinds of sentences representation;
- removing all symbols except the English alphabet, digits, and hyphens.
- removing all words shorter than 3 letters;
- conversion to lower case;
- stemming all words;
- transferring all date representation into ISO-format
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