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viewer: false |
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license: openrail |
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task_categories: |
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- summarization |
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- text-generation |
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- text2text-generation |
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- az |
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- butabytes |
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- nlp |
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- corpus |
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- az |
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- azerbaijani |
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- ai |
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- tifosiai |
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- aznlp |
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pretty_name: butabytes |
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size_categories: |
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- 10M<n<100M |
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# ButaBytes 2.0 - The largest NLP corpus for Azerbaijani Language (43M+ sentences) |
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ButaBytes is designed for a wide range of NLP tasks, collected from 3 million sources with a diverse range of genres and topics, such as politics, economics, science, culture, sports, history, and society. The documents include a mix of contemporary and historical texts, drawn from newspapers, magazines, academic journals, Wikipedia articles, and books. This mix provides a comprehensive linguistic and cultural resource for NLP technologies. |
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## Corpus Structure |
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### Data Splits |
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The ButaBytes corpus has 4 main sources (books, wikipedia, news and sentences) with the following distribution: |
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| Source Name | Number of Instances | Size (GB) | |
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| sentences.json | 43,755,942 | 10.1 | |
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| wikipedia.json | 178,836 | 0.64 | |
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| news.json | 623,964 | 1.37 | |
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| books.zip | 434 | 0.12 | |
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## Methodology |
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The ButaBytes corpus was constructed by scraping a wide array of Azerbaijani content to ensure a comprehensive and diverse dataset. Our sources included Azerbaijani news websites known for their popularity and reliability, public documents, books spanning various genres, and a rich selection of user-generated content such as social media posts and blogs. We implemented specialized cleaning techniques tailored to each content type, enhancing the accuracy and consistency of the data across the corpus. This approach guarantees a robust and versatile resource suited for a multitude of NLP applications. |
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## Considerations for Using the Corpus |
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#### Social Impact |
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ButaBytes contributes significantly to the NLP research community by providing a valuable resource for developing text generation tools in Azerbaijani. It not only supports the advancement of language technologies but also promotes linguistic diversity and cultural preservation. |
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#### Biases and Limitations |
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While efforts were made to minimize bias in the corpus, some limitations remain. Users should be cautious with models trained on this data, particularly concerning inherent biases that might influence the performance and fairness of these models. |
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#### Corpus Authors |
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The ButaBytes 2.0 was developed by the Tifosi AI (formerly AZNLP), a group of dedicated researchers and data scientists focused on advancing Artificial Intelligence. The team has committed to ethical sourcing and responsible management of the dataset, ensuring it serves as a reliable and valuable resource for the community. |
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