metadata

license: mit
language:
  - tt
tags:
  - tt
  - tatar
  - books
pretty_name: Collection of books in Tatar language in Cyrillic script

Tatar Books Collection (Cyrillic) 📚

This dataset, hosted by Yasalma, is a curated collection of Tatar books in Parquet format. The texts are in Cyrillic script, making this dataset ideal for linguistic research, language modeling, and other NLP applications in the Tatar language.

Dataset Details

Language: Tatar (Cyrillic script)
Format: Single Parquet file
Columns:
- file_name: The original name of each book’s file
- text: The full content of each book
Total Size: 75 MB
License: MIT

Structure

The dataset is organized so that each row in the Parquet file represents an individual Tatar book, with columns for the book’s filename (file_name) and its content (text).

Potential Use Cases

Language Modeling: Train language models specifically for Tatar in Cyrillic script.
Machine Translation: Use the dataset for Cyrillic-to-Latin transliteration and other translation tasks.
Linguistic Research: Study linguistic structures, grammar, and vocabulary in Tatar.

Examples

Here’s how to load and use the dataset in Python with pandas:

import pandas as pd

# Load the Parquet file
df = pd.read_parquet("path/to/train-00000-of-00001.parquet", engine="pyarrow")

# View the first few rows
print(df.head())

Example of a sample entry:

file_name	text
Корымлы Бармак_tat.txt	Кояш Тимбикова\nКОРЫМЛЫ БАРМАК\n\nӨйләнешүебез...

Usage

To load the dataset using Hugging Face’s datasets library:

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("neurotatarlar/tt-books-cyrillic")

Contributions and Acknowledgements

This dataset is maintained by the Yasalma team. Contributions, feedback, and suggestions are welcome to improve and expand the dataset.