I am looking for a dataset containing a large number of NLP research papers and abstracts. Are there any open access datasets like that?
If so, can you please share the details?
I have come across such a dataset in CS 20SI GitHub repo: it's a collection of abstracts from 7200 research papers.
If you need even more, you can always write a simple crawler of arXiv web-site. The abstracts are outlined right on the webpage in a <blockquote>
tag, no need to download and parse a pdf.