---
title: "Large Text Compression Benchmark"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/large-text-compression-benchmark-ul1o7z3ea
source_url: http://www.mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html
type: article
source: "Lobsters"
published: 2024-05-03T18:35:43.470Z
updated: 2024-05-09T09:28:47.883Z
tags: ["ai", "nlp"]
reading_time: 74
upvotes: 3
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Large Text Compression Benchmark

**[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 74 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

The Large Text Compression Benchmark is a competition that ranks lossless data compression programs based on the compressed size of the first 109 bytes of the English version of Wikipedia. The goal is to encourage research in artificial intelligence and natural language processing (NLP) in the context of text compression.

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