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--- |
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annotations_creators: |
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- found |
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language: |
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- lv |
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language_creators: |
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- found |
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license: |
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- cc-by-4.0 |
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multilinguality: |
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- monolingual |
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pretty_name: Latvian text dataset |
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size_categories: |
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- 10K<n<100K |
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source_datasets: |
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- extended|tilde_model |
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- extended|wikipedia |
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- extended|europarl_bilingual |
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tags: |
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- lv |
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- latvian |
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task_categories: |
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- automatic-speech-recognition |
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task_ids: [] |
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--- |
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# Latvian text dataset |
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Data set of latvian language texts. Intended for use in AI tool development, like speech recognition or spellcheckers |
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## Data sources used |
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* Latvian Wikisource articles - https://wikisource.org/wiki/Category:Latvian |
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* Literary works of Rainis - https://repository.clarin.lv/repository/xmlui/handle/20.500.12574/41 |
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* Latvian Wikipedia articles - https://huggingface.co/datasets/joelito/EU_Wikipedias |
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* European Parliament Proceedings Parallel Corpus - https://huggingface.co/datasets/europarl_bilingual |
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* Tilde MODEL Corpus - Multilingual Open Data for European Languages - https://huggingface.co/datasets/tilde_model |
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To get Wikipedia dataset (197MB) run. |
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``` |
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python tools/wikipedia/GetWikipedia.py |
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``` |
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To get Europarl dataset (1.7GB) run. |
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``` |
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python tools/europarl/GetEuroparl.py |
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``` |
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To get Tilde dataset (834MB) run. |
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``` |
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python tools/europarl/GetTilde.py |
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``` |
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To combine all datasets run |
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``` |
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sh combine-all.sh |
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``` |
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To clean out some junk run. |
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``` |
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sh clean.sh |
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``` |
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Also maybe you want to remove duplocate lines. To do so run |
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``` |
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sort lv.txt | uniq > lv-uniq.txt |
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``` |
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## Notes |
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Possible future sources |
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* Parliament proceedings transcripts - https://www.saeima.lv/lv/transcripts |
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* Discussions of Latvian Wikipedia pages - https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AllPages |
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* Out of copyright books from LNB collection - https://data.gov.lv/dati/lv/dataset/gramatu-digitala-kolekcija |
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Data sets not used |
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* Web scrapes, as they tend to yield data from comments with improper spelling like "atrashanaas vieta" instead of "atrašanās vieta" |
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* Open Subtitles, as they contain data with improper spelling like "atrashanaas vieta" instead of "atrašanās vieta" |
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Possible issues: |
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* Data sets contain foreign language characters, like "蠻子" or cyrilic f.e. "Рига" |
