README.md

metadata

configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/train-*
      - split: dev
        path: data/dev-*
      - split: test
        path: data/test-*
dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: cloi
      dtype: string
    - name: abstract
      dtype: string
    - name: title
      dtype: string
    - name: org_discipline
      sequence: string
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_bytes: 6288276
      num_examples: 6517
    - name: dev
      num_bytes: 3162725
      num_examples: 3272
    - name: test
      num_bytes: 3140629
      num_examples: 3245
  download_size: 7170739
  dataset_size: 12591630
license: cc-by-4.0
language:
  - nl

This dataset is based on the VABB dataset, the Flemish Academic Bibliography for the Social Sciences and Humanities.

Citation Information

If you find our paper, benchmark or models helpful, please consider cite as follows:

@misc{banar2025mtebnle5nlembeddingbenchmark,
      title={MTEB-NL and E5-NL: Embedding Benchmark and Models for Dutch}, 
      author={Nikolay Banar and Ehsan Lotfi and Jens Van Nooten and Cristina Arhiliuc and Marija Kliocaite and Walter Daelemans},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2509.12340},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12340}, 
}

The data source:

@misc{aspeslagh2024vabbshw_blx,
  author   = {Aspeslagh, P. and Guns, R. and Engels, T. C. E.},
  title    = {{VABB-SHW}: Dataset of Flemish Academic Bibliography for the Social Sciences and Humanities},
  version  = {edition 14},
  year     = {2024},
  publisher= {Zenodo},
  doi      = {10.5281/zenodo.14214806},
  url      = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14214806},
  urldate  = {2025-08-14},
  type     = {Data set}
}