huggingface/datasets 1.2.1

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New Features

• Fast start up (#1690): Importing datasets is now significantly faster.

Datasets Changes

• New: MNIST (#1730)
• New: Korean intonation-aided intention identification dataset (#1715)
• New: Switchboard Dialog Act Corpus (#1678)
• Update: Wiki-Auto - Added unfiltered versions of the training data for the GEM simplification task. (#1722)
• Update: Scientific papers - Mirror datasets zip (#1721)
• Update: Update DBRD dataset card and download URL (#1699)
• Fix: Thainer - fix ner_tag bugs (#1695)
• Fix: reuters21578 - metadata parsing errors (#1693)
• Fix: ade_corpus_v2 - fix config names (#1689)
• Fix: DaNE - fix last example (#1688)

Datasets tagging

• rename "part-of-speech-tagging" tag in some dataset cards (#1645)

Bug Fixes

• Fix column list comparison in transmit format (#1719)
• Fix windows path scheme in cached path (#1711)

Docs

• Add information about caching and verifications in "Load a Dataset" docs (#1705)

Moreover many dataset cards of datasets added during the sprint were updated ! Thanks to all the contributors :)