TNews

An MTEB dataset

Massive Text Embedding Benchmark

Short Text Classification for News

Task category	t2c
Domains	None
Reference	https://www.cluebenchmarks.com/introduce.html

How to evaluate on this task

You can evaluate an embedding model on this dataset using the following code:

import mteb

task = mteb.get_task("TNews")
evaluator = mteb.MTEB([task])

model = mteb.get_model(YOUR_MODEL)
evaluator.run(model)

To learn more about how to run models on mteb task check out the GitHub repository.

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite the dataset as well as mteb, as this dataset likely includes additional processing as a part of the MMTEB Contribution.

@inproceedings{xu-etal-2020-clue,
  address = {Barcelona, Spain (Online)},
  author = {Xu, Liang  and
Hu, Hai and
Zhang, Xuanwei and
Li, Lu and
Cao, Chenjie and
Li, Yudong and
Xu, Yechen and
Sun, Kai and
Yu, Dian and
Yu, Cong and
Tian, Yin and
Dong, Qianqian and
Liu, Weitang and
Shi, Bo and
Cui, Yiming and
Li, Junyi and
Zeng, Jun and
Wang, Rongzhao and
Xie, Weijian and
Li, Yanting and
Patterson, Yina and
Tian, Zuoyu and
Zhang, Yiwen and
Zhou, He and
Liu, Shaoweihua and
Zhao, Zhe and
Zhao, Qipeng and
Yue, Cong and
Zhang, Xinrui and
Yang, Zhengliang and
Richardson, Kyle and
Lan, Zhenzhong },
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.419},
  month = dec,
  pages = {4762--4772},
  publisher = {International Committee on Computational Linguistics},
  title = {{CLUE}: A {C}hinese Language Understanding Evaluation Benchmark},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.419},
  year = {2020},
}


@article{enevoldsen2025mmtebmassivemultilingualtext,
  title={MMTEB: Massive Multilingual Text Embedding Benchmark},
  author={Kenneth Enevoldsen and Isaac Chung and Imene Kerboua and Márton Kardos and Ashwin Mathur and David Stap and Jay Gala and Wissam Siblini and Dominik Krzemiński and Genta Indra Winata and Saba Sturua and Saiteja Utpala and Mathieu Ciancone and Marion Schaeffer and Gabriel Sequeira and Diganta Misra and Shreeya Dhakal and Jonathan Rystrøm and Roman Solomatin and Ömer Çağatan and Akash Kundu and Martin Bernstorff and Shitao Xiao and Akshita Sukhlecha and Bhavish Pahwa and Rafał Poświata and Kranthi Kiran GV and Shawon Ashraf and Daniel Auras and Björn Plüster and Jan Philipp Harries and Loïc Magne and Isabelle Mohr and Mariya Hendriksen and Dawei Zhu and Hippolyte Gisserot-Boukhlef and Tom Aarsen and Jan Kostkan and Konrad Wojtasik and Taemin Lee and Marek Šuppa and Crystina Zhang and Roberta Rocca and Mohammed Hamdy and Andrianos Michail and John Yang and Manuel Faysse and Aleksei Vatolin and Nandan Thakur and Manan Dey and Dipam Vasani and Pranjal Chitale and Simone Tedeschi and Nguyen Tai and Artem Snegirev and Michael Günther and Mengzhou Xia and Weijia Shi and Xing Han Lù and Jordan Clive and Gayatri Krishnakumar and Anna Maksimova and Silvan Wehrli and Maria Tikhonova and Henil Panchal and Aleksandr Abramov and Malte Ostendorff and Zheng Liu and Simon Clematide and Lester James Miranda and Alena Fenogenova and Guangyu Song and Ruqiya Bin Safi and Wen-Ding Li and Alessia Borghini and Federico Cassano and Hongjin Su and Jimmy Lin and Howard Yen and Lasse Hansen and Sara Hooker and Chenghao Xiao and Vaibhav Adlakha and Orion Weller and Siva Reddy and Niklas Muennighoff},
  publisher = {arXiv},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.13595},
  year={2025},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13595},
  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2502.13595},
}

@article{muennighoff2022mteb,
  author = {Muennighoff, Niklas and Tazi, Nouamane and Magne, Loïc and Reimers, Nils},
  title = {MTEB: Massive Text Embedding Benchmark},
  publisher = {arXiv},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.07316},
  year = {2022}
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.07316},
  doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2210.07316},
}

Dataset Statistics

Dataset Statistics

The following code contains the descriptive statistics from the task. These can also be obtained using:

import mteb

task = mteb.get_task("TNews")

desc_stats = task.metadata.descriptive_stats

{}

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