---
license: cc-by-sa-3.0
dataset_info:
- config_name: wiki_indic_cleaned
configs:
- config_name: wiki_indic_cleaned
  data_files:
  - wiki_indic_cleaned/*
language:
- hi
- en
- gu
- bn
- ka
- ta
- ur
---
# Bhasha Wiki Indic Context

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This dataset has Wikipedia articles pertaining to Indian context.
## Dataset Details

### Dataset Description

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We filtered out Indian context data from [wikimedia/wikipedia](https://huggingface.co/datasets/wikimedia/wikipedia) dataset's English articles by keywords.
Further we trained a model to classify for Indian content vs Not Indian content to narrow down filtered English articles.
We then translated these artices to 6 Indian languages (Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Tamil, Kannada, Urdu) using AI4Bharat's [IndicTrans2](https://huggingface.co/ai4bharat/indictrans2-en-indic-1B). The dataset has been cleaned and can be used for pre-training multilingual LLMs.


- **Curated by:** [Soket AI Labs](https://soket.ai/)
- **Language(s) (NLP):** [English, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Tamil, Kannada, Urdu]
- **License:** [cc-by-sa-3.0]

## Uses

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The dataset is focussed on Indian factual content for pre-training LLMs where Indian knowledge and contextual understanding is required.

## Dataset Structure

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Each row corresponds to a wikipedia article with the decription of article in source language(english) and translations in 6 indian languages.
The title is in english and descriptions in different languages is represented by column name of format "<language_code>_<script>"
Each description column in different languages is a list of sentences/multiple sentences and can be concatenated to get cleaned article decription.

## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

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### Source Data

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Wikpedia english articles from [wikimedia/wikipedia](https://huggingface.co/datasets/wikimedia/wikipedia)

#### Data Collection and Processing

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### Recommendations

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Though we tried to filter as much Indic context articles as possible with high Recall, there might be some non indic articles mixed in them as well.

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