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Token Classification
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Urdu
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metadata
license: mit
task_categories:
  - token-classification
language:
  - ur
tags:
  - urdu
  - urdu ghazal
  - ghazal
pretty_name: Urdu Ghazal
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K

Urdu Poetry Dataset

Welcome to the Urdu Poetry Dataset! This dataset is a collection of Urdu poems where each entry includes two columns:

  • Title: The title of the poem.
  • Poem: The full text of the poem.

This dataset is ideal for natural language processing tasks such as text generation, language modeling, or cultural studies in computational linguistics.

Dataset Overview

The Urdu Poetry Dataset comprises a diverse collection of Urdu poems, capturing the rich heritage and literary nuances of the Urdu language. Each record in the dataset consists of:

  • Poem Title: A brief title that reflects the theme or subject of the poem.
  • Poem Text: The actual content of the poem.

The dataset is structured in a tabular format, making it straightforward to load and manipulate with popular data processing libraries.

Data Format

The dataset is provided in a standard tabular format (e.g., CSV or JSON). Each entry includes the following columns:

  • title (string): The title of the poem.
  • poem (string): The full text of the poem.

Example (CSV format):

title,poem
"دل کی کتاب","یہ عشق نہیں آساں، بس اتنا سمجھ لیجے..."
"پھولوں کا سلسلہ","خوشبوؤں کی محفل میں، ایک پھول داستان کہتا ہے..."
How to Load the Dataset
You can easily load the dataset using the Hugging Face Datasets library. Below is an example using Python:

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from datasets import load_dataset

# Replace 'your-username/urdu-poetry-dataset' with the actual repository name on Hugging Face Hub
dataset = load_dataset("your-username/urdu-poetry-dataset")

# Accessing the train split (if applicable, otherwise adjust accordingly)
print(dataset['train'][0])
Note: Ensure that you have installed the datasets library with:

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pip install datasets
Intended Use Cases
Text Generation: Train language models to generate Urdu poetry.
Stylistic Analysis: Analyze poetic styles and structures in Urdu literature.
Cultural Studies: Explore themes and cultural nuances present in Urdu poetry.
Machine Translation: Use as a resource for translating poetic texts between languages.
License
This dataset is distributed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more details.


Contributing
Contributions are welcome! If you have additional data, improvements, or suggestions, please open an issue or submit a pull request on the GitHub repository.

Citation
If you use this dataset in your research, please consider citing it as follows:

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@dataset-ReySajju742/English-Urdu-Dataset,
  author       = Sajjad Rasool,
  title        = English Transliteration (Roman Urdu) of Urdu Poetry Dataset,
  year         = 2025,
  publisher    = ReySajju742,
  url          = https://huggingface.co/datasets/ReySajju742/English-Urdu-Dataset,
}
Contact
For any questions, suggestions, or issues, please contact [email protected]