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license: agpl-3.0 |
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task_categories: |
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- text-classification |
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language: |
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- en |
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- la |
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size_categories: |
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- 10K<n<100K |
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--- |
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# Latin Author Name to Digital Latin Library ID Concordance |
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This dataset contains variant names of authors of works in Latin and their corresponding identifier in the [Digital Latin Library's Catalog](https://catalog.digitallatin.org/). |
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The variant names were gathered from the [Virtual International Authority File](https://viaf.org/) records for the authors. In instances where an author's name has few or no known variant name forms, pseudo-variant names were generated by "misspelling" the name using the following script: |
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```python |
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from textblob import Word |
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import random |
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def generate_variations(name, num_variations=8, existing_variations=None): |
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if existing_variations is None: |
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existing_variations = set() |
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while len(existing_variations) < num_variations: |
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variation = list(name) |
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print(f"Generating variations for {name}. Existing count: {len(existing_variations)}") |
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num_changes = random.randint(1, 2) # Randomly choose the number of changes |
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for _ in range(num_changes): |
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idx = random.randint(0, len(variation) - 1) |
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if variation[idx].isalpha(): |
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# Randomly change the letter |
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variation[idx] = chr(random.randint(97, 122)) |
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# Create a string from the list |
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variation_str = ''.join(variation) |
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# Use TextBlob to correct the spelling slightly to create realistic variations |
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corrected = str(Word(variation_str).spellcheck()[0][0]) |
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existing_variations.add(corrected) |
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return list(existing_variations) |
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``` |
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