| --- |
| pretty_name: 'Flashback: Computers & IT' |
| language: |
| - sv |
| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| license_name: CC-BY 4.0 |
| size_categories: |
| - 10M<n<100M |
| task_categories: |
| - text-generation |
| - fill-mask |
| task_ids: |
| - language-modeling |
| source_datasets: |
| - original |
| domains: |
| - Social Media |
| --- |
| |
| # Dataset Card for Flashback: Computers & IT |
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| Sentences from the Computers & IT subforum of [Flashback](https://www.flashback.org), a large Swedish internet forum. |
| <!-- END-SHORT DESCRIPTION --> |
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| This subset contains sentences from the Computers & IT subforum of Flashback, one of Sweden's largest internet forums. Each sample corresponds to a single sentence — the source corpus supplies sentences in scrambled order for copyright and privacy reasons, so the original post context is not recoverable. |
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| ## Dataset Description |
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| - **Number of samples**: 18.93M |
| - **Number of tokens (Llama 3)**: 512.80M |
| - **Average document length in tokens (min, max)**: 27.09 (2, 65.54K) |
| <!-- END-DESC-STATS --> |
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| ## Dataset Structure |
| An example from the dataset looks as follows. |
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| <!-- START-SAMPLE --> |
| ```py |
| { |
| "id": "flashback-dator_00000001", |
| "text": "Äh, överspännings skydd är onödigt, bytt hela datorn utan.", |
| "source": "flashback-dator", |
| "added": "2026-07-19", |
| "created": "2007-07-13, 2007-07-13", |
| "token_count": 26 |
| } |
| ``` |
|
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| ### Data Fields |
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| An entry in the dataset consists of the following fields: |
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| - `id` (`str`): A unique identifier for each document. |
| - `text` (`str`): The content of the document. |
| - `source` (`str`): The source of the document (see [Source Data](#source-data)). |
| - `added` (`str`): The date when the document was added to this collection. |
| - `created` (`str`): The date range when the document was originally created. |
| - `token_count` (`int`): The number of tokens in the sample computed using the Llama 3 tokenizer. |
| <!-- END-SAMPLE --> |
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| ### Dataset Statistics |
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| <p align="center"> |
| <img src="./images/dist_document_length.png" width="600" style="margin-right: 10px;" /> |
| </p> |
| <!-- END-DATASET PLOTS --> |
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| ## Additional Information |
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| ### Limitations |
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| Each sample is a single sentence. The source corpus deliberately scrambles sentence order for copyright and privacy protection, so the original post context is not recoverable. |
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| The source material is tokenized and does not preserve the original spacing between tokens. We approximate readable spacing when reconstructing plain text. |
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| As a forum corpus, this material contains informal, colloquial, and potentially offensive language. |
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| ### Source |
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| We download the corpus from Språkbanken Text's official source file. Språkbanken Text distributes the corpus with DOI `10.23695/0j57-m676`. |
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| ### Citation Information |
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| If you use this subset, cite the original source release: |
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| > Språkbanken Text (2025). Flashback: Computers & IT (updated: 2025-04-01). [Data set]. Språkbanken Text. https://doi.org/10.23695/0j57-m676 |
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|
| ```bibtex |
| @misc{flashback_dator, |
| doi = {10.23695/0j57-m676}, |
| url = {https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/resources/flashback-dator}, |
| author = {Språkbanken Text}, |
| language = {swe}, |
| title = {Flashback: Computers & IT}, |
| publisher = {Språkbanken Text}, |
| year = {2025} |
| } |
| ``` |
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| ## License Information |
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| The source corpus is distributed under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
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