Reuters Corpora
(As the license does not mention pricing, it is presumably freely licensed)
In 2000, Reuters Ltd made available a large collection of Reuters News stories for use in research and development of natural language processing, information retrieval, and machine learning systems. This corpus, known as "Reuters Corpus, Volume 1" or RCV1, is significantly larger than the older, well-known Reuters-21578 collection heavily used in the text classification community.
In Fall of 2004, NIST took over distribution of RCV1 and any future Reuters Corpora. You can now get these datasets by sending a request to NIST and by signing the agreements below.
What's available
RCV1 Reuters Corpus, Volume 1, English language, 1996-08-20 to 1997-08-19 (Release date 2000-11-03, Format version 1, correction level 0)
This is distributed on two CDs and contains about 810,000 Reuters, English Language News stories. It requires about 2.5 GB for storage of the uncompressed files.
RCV2 Reuters Corpus, Volume 2, Multilingual Corpus, 1996-08-20 to 1997-08-19 (Release date 2005-05-31, Format version 1, correction level 0)
This is distributed on one CD and contains over 487,000 Reuters News stories in thirteen languages (Dutch, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Italian, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish). These stories are contemporaneous with RCV1, but some languages do not cover the entire time period.
http://trec.nist.gov/data/reuters/reuters.html
(As the license does not mention pricing, it is presumably freely licensed)
In 2000, Reuters Ltd made available a large collection of Reuters News stories for use in research and development of natural language processing, information retrieval, and machine learning systems. This corpus, known as "Reuters Corpus, Volume 1" or RCV1, is significantly larger than the older, well-known Reuters-21578 collection heavily used in the text classification community.
In Fall of 2004, NIST took over distribution of RCV1 and any future Reuters Corpora. You can now get these datasets by sending a request to NIST and by signing the agreements below.
What's available
RCV1 Reuters Corpus, Volume 1, English language, 1996-08-20 to 1997-08-19 (Release date 2000-11-03, Format version 1, correction level 0)
This is distributed on two CDs and contains about 810,000 Reuters, English Language News stories. It requires about 2.5 GB for storage of the uncompressed files.
RCV2 Reuters Corpus, Volume 2, Multilingual Corpus, 1996-08-20 to 1997-08-19 (Release date 2005-05-31, Format version 1, correction level 0)
This is distributed on one CD and contains over 487,000 Reuters News stories in thirteen languages (Dutch, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Italian, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish). These stories are contemporaneous with RCV1, but some languages do not cover the entire time period.
http://trec.nist.gov/data/reuters/reuters.html
