README.md

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pretty_name: UzBooks
license: apache-2.0
tags:
- uz
- books
---

# Dataset Card for BookCorpus

## Table of Contents
- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
  - [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
  - [Supported Tasks and Leaderboards](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
  - [Languages](#languages)
- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
  - [Data Instances](#data-instances)
  - [Data Fields](#data-fields)
  - [Data Splits](#data-splits)
- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)
  - [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale)
  - [Source Data](#source-data)
  - [Annotations](#annotations)
  - [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information)
- [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data)
  - [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset)
  - [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases)
  - [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations)
- [Additional Information](#additional-information)
  - [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators)
  - [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)
  - [Citation Information](#citation-information)
  - [Contributions](#contributions)

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage:** [https://tahrirchi.uz/grammatika-tekshiruvi](https://tahrirchi.uz/grammatika-tekshiruvi)
- **Repository:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
- **Paper:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
- **Point of Contact:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 16.98 GB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 32.95 GB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 49.93 GB

### Dataset Summary

In an effort to democratize research on low-resource languages, we release UzBooks dataset, a cleaned book corpus consisting of nearly 40000 books in Uzbek Language divided into two branches: "original" and "lat," representing the OCRed (Latin and Cyrillic) and fully Latin versions of the texts, respectively. 

Please refer to our [blogpost](https://tahrirchi.uz/grammatika-tekshiruvi) and paper (Coming soon!) for further details.

To load and use dataset, run this script:

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

uz_books=load_dataset("tahrirchi/uz-books")
```

## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

#### plain_text

- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 16.98 GB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 32.95 GB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 49.93 GB

An example of 'train' looks as follows.
```
{
    "text": "Hamsa\nAlisher Navoiy ..."
}
```

### Data Fields

The data fields are the same among all splits.

#### plain_text
- `text`: a `string` feature that contains text of the books.

### Data Splits

| name            |         |
|-----------------|--------:|
| original        | 39712   |
| lat             | 39712   |

## Dataset Creation

The books have been crawled from various internet sources and preprocessed using Optical Character Recognition techniques in [Tesseract OCR Engine](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract). The latin version is created by converting the original dataset with highly curated scripts in order to put more emphasis on the research and development of the field.


## Citation

Please cite this model using the following format:

```
@online{Mamasaidov2023UzBooks,
    author    = {Mukhammadsaid Mamasaidov and Abror Shopulatov},
    title     = {UzBooks dataset},
    year      = {2023},
    url       = {https://huggingface.co./datasets/tahrirchi/uz-books},
    note      = {Accessed: 2023-10-28}, % change this date
    urldate   = {2023-10-28} % change this date
}
```

## Gratitude

We are thankfull for these awesome organizations and people for help to make it happen:

 - [Ilya Gusev](https://github.com/IlyaGusev/): for advise throughout the process  
 - [David Dale](https://daviddale.ru): for advise throughout the process

## Contacts

We believe that this work will enable and inspire all enthusiasts around the world to open the hidden beauty of low resource languages, in particular Uzbek. 

For further development and issues about the dataset, please use [email protected] or [email protected] to contact.