English Gigaword Fifth Edition is a comprehensive archive of newswire text data that has been acquired over several years by the Linguistic Data Consortiume (LDC). The fifth edition includes all of the contents in English Gigaword Fourth Edition (LDC2009T13) plus new data covering the 24-month period January 2009 through December 2010.
The seven distinct international sources of English newswire included in this edition are the following:
- Agence France-Presse, English Service (afp_eng)
- Associated Press Worldstream, English Service (apw_eng)
- Central News Agency of Taiwan, English Service (cna_eng)
- Los Angeles Times/Washington Post Newswire Service (ltw_eng)
- Washington Post/Bloomberg Newswire Service (wpb_eng)
- New York Times Newswire Service (nyt_eng)
- Xinhua News Agency, English Service (xin_eng)