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license: cc-by-4.0
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language:
  - en
  - he
  - hi
  - ru
  - fr
  - de
  - es
  - zh
  - it
  - pt
  - ja
  - ko
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  - web-page-classification
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  - structure-prediction
  - conversational
  - instruction-following
  - knowledge-base-creation
  - philosophical-reasoning
  - cultural-analysis
  - long-form-generation
  - structured-output
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  - pedagogical-content-generation
  - intellectual-discourse-generation
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  - domain-expertise-learning
  - semantic-relationship-understanding
  - long-context-processing
  - philosophy
  - AI
  - LLM
pretty_name: Degeneration HTML Multilingual Dataset
size_categories:
  - 1M<n<10M

The Degeneration of the Nation Multilingual Dataset

This dataset contains the complete content of The Degeneration of the Nation project, a comprehensive philosophical and cultural website exploring the intersection of technology, artificial intelligence, and human culture. The content includes philosophical essays, cultural analysis, and contemporary literature, with complex parallel structure and sophisticated HTML architecture across all language versions.

Dataset Summary

Content Structure: ~400 articles × 12 languages
Content Volume: 8M+ words
HTML Structure: Complex, identical across all language versions
Content Types: Essays, cultural analysis, interactive books, poetry

Languages

Hebrew (original), English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Korean, Mandarin, Hindi

Data Structure

{
  "id": "string",          // e.g., "he/actualia6.html" or "en/alternative-commentary6.html"
  "language": "string",    // Language code
  "title": "string",       // Article title from HTML
  "content": "string",     // Full text content
  "html": "string",        // Complete HTML
  "url": "string",         // URL on original site
  "original_url": "string" // URL of Hebrew original
}

License and Attribution

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
License details and attribution requirements:
- Hebrew: https://hitdarderut-haaretz.org/license
- English: https://degeneration-of-nation.org/license

Citation

@dataset{degeneration-nation-2024,
  title     = {The Degeneration of the Nation Multilingual Dataset},
  author    = {Ben Zippor},
  year      = {2024},
  version   = {1.0},
  url       = {https://degeneration-of-nation.org},
  original_url = {https://hitdarderut-haaretz.org},
  language  = {Multilingual},
  license   = {CC BY 4.0}
}

Technical Details

URL Structure

Hebrew: hitdarderut-haaretz.org/[hebrew-filename]
Other languages: degeneration-of-nation.org/[lang]/[english-filename]

Hebrew to English Path Mappings

{
  "actualia": "alternative-commentary",
  "tarbut-vesifrut": "culture&literature",
  "filosofia": "philosophy-of-learning",
  "igul-shachor": "night-life",
  "bikoret-haaretz": "press-review",
  "tzurat-atid": "future-tense",
  "handasat-enosh": "human-engineering",
  "acharit-halelot": "end-of-nights",
  "hapostim-shel-hashavua": "posts-of-the-week"
}