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, contains a curated collection of Tatar books in .txt format. The texts are in Cyrillic script and aim to support linguistic research, language modeling, and various natural language processing (NLP) applications for the Tatar language.

Dataset Details

Language: Tatar (Cyrillic script)
Format: .txt files
License: MIT

Structure

Each text file corresponds to a unique Tatar book. The texts are structured as plain text, making it easy to parse and tokenize for NLP tasks.

Potential Use Cases

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

Examples

Below is a short snippet from a sample text in the dataset:

Юл газабы - гүр газабы, дисәләр дә, җәфа күрмичә генә, Мәккә каласына килеп төштек. Кунакханәләрнең шәп дигәненә урнаштырдылар. Ашханәсе этаж саен, ашау-эчү бушка. Гыйбадәтеңне генә калдырма! Шулай итеп, без Согуд Гарәбстаны короленең кунаклары статусындагы хаҗилар булдык.

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.