---
language:
- ks
license: apache-2.0
metadata:
  language:
  - Kashmiri
  license: Apache 2.0
  size: medium
  dataset_type: text
  features:
  - sentences
  citation: "@misc{KashmiriCorpus2024,\n  author = {Nawab},\n  title = {Kashmiri Textual\
    \ Data Corpus},\n  year = {2024},\n  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/kashmiri_corpus}\n\
    }\n"
  tags:
  - language
  - kashmiri
  - textual
  - corpus
---

# Kashmiri Textual Data Corpus

## Introduction
This repository contains a combined dataset of Kashmiri textual data collected from various sources. The data has been sourced from different locations and may contain non-Kashmiri text (e.g., Urdu, Persian). The goal of this corpus is to provide a wide variety of Kashmiri text data for research and language processing tasks.

## Sources of Data

### 1. **mzmmoazam/kashmiri_dataset** (HTML Data)
Source: [GitHub - mzmmoazam/kashmiri_dataset](https://github.com/mzmmoazam/kashmiri_dataset)

This dataset contains Kashmiri text scraped from various HTML pages. Some sentences may include non-Kashmiri text. 

**Data Sample:**
| sentence | source |
|----------|--------|
| *یہ چھہ دوٚیم حصہ * گۅڈنیک حصہ وُچھِو * تۯیم حصہ وُچھِو کتاب ٹھیک پٲٹھۍ پرنہ باپتھ چھہ گلمرگ نستعلیق فانٹ انسٹال کرن ضروری۔ | https://github.com/mzmmoazam/kashmiri_dataset |
| سرمایا تہٕ سام | https://github.com/mzmmoazam/kashmiri_dataset |

### 2. **SMUQamar** 
Source: [Hugging Face - SMUQamar/Kashmiri-English-Parallel-Corpus](https://huggingface.co/datasets/SMUQamar/Kashmiri-English-Parallel-Corpus)

This dataset contains Kashmiri-English parallel sentences.

**Data Sample:**
| sentence | source |
|----------|--------|
| کیٛاہ ژٕ ہؠکہٕ مےٚ کینٛہہ ہیلدی فوڈ ڈِنَر خٲطرٕ سجسٹہٕ کٔرِتھ | https://huggingface.co/datasets/SMUQamar/Kashmiri-English-Parallel-Corpus |
| مہربٲنی کٔرِتھ کر سپیکرچ آواز کم | https://huggingface.co/datasets/SMUQamar/Kashmiri-English-Parallel-Corpus |

### 3. **Wikipedia**
Source: [Kashmiri Wikipedia](https://ks.wikipedia.org)

Data scraped from Kashmiri Wikipedia articles.

**Data Sample:**
| sentence | source |
|----------|--------|
| 1- (نَمبَر) چھُ اَکھ نَمبَر یُس -2 کھوتہٕ بۆڈ چھُ تہٕ 0 کھوتہٕ لوکُٹ چھُ۔ | https://ks.wikipedia.org |
| 0 (نَمبَر) یا صِفَر چھُ اَکھ نَمبَر یُس -1 کھوتہٕ بۆڈ چھُ تہٕ 1 کھوتہٕ لوکُٹ چھُ. | https://ks.wikipedia.org |

### 4. **NLLB**
Source: [Hugging Face - allenai/nllb](https://huggingface.co/datasets/allenai/nllb)

This dataset contains Kashmiri sentences from the NLLB project.

**Data Sample:**
| sentence | source |
|----------|--------|
| اسہِ تہِ ؤژھ آکاشہِ برکت تٲے تٲے | https://huggingface.co/datasets/allenai/nllb |
| رٲتۍ راتس پتھ عذابن میٲنۍ تن وٮتراں کُنی | https://huggingface.co/datasets/allenai/nllb |

### 5. **OpenSlr**
Source: [OpenSlr - Dataset 122](https://openslr.org/122/)

This dataset contains Kashmiri sentences collected from OpenSlr.

**Data Sample:**
| sentence | source |
|----------|--------|
| مِہ ہز چھ ناو آدِل بشیر | https://openslr.org/122/ |
| بٔہ ہز چُھس بسان کۅلگامِہ ڈِسٹِک | https://openslr.org/122/ |

## Data Preprocessing
The data has been processed by performing the following steps:
1. **Merging Data:** All datasets were combined into a single dataset.
2. **Cleaning:** Duplicates were removed, and sentences with very few words were filtered out.
3. **Word Count:** Word counts for each sentence were calculated and visualized.
4. **Filtered Data:** Sentences with fewer than 3 words were excluded from the final dataset.

### Cleaned Data Statistics:
- **Total Sentences:** 46,748
- **Average Word Count per Sentence:** 16.1
- **Max Word Count per Sentence:** 6767
- **Min Word Count per Sentence:** 3

## Citation

If you use this dataset in your research, please cite it as:
```
@misc{
KashmiriCorpus2024,
author = {Nawab},
title = {Kashmiri Textual Data Corpus},
year = {2024},
url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/kashmiri_corpus} 
}
```