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license: apache-2.0 |
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task_categories: |
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- text-generation |
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- question-answering |
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- conversational |
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language: |
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- ta |
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size_categories: |
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- 1K<n<2K |
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language_creators: |
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- expert-generated |
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- machine-generated |
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multilinguality: |
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- monolingual |
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pretty_name: tamil_stories |
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--- |
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# Summary |
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`tamil_stories` is an open source dataset of instruct-style records generated by scraping publicly available short stories on the following websites. |
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- [Siruvarmalar](https://www.siruvarmalar.com/) |
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- [Tamilsurangam](https://www.tamilsurangam.in/) |
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Apart from scraping and automated cleaning, the data was also tagged manually by a group of volunteers. |
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This dataset created as part of [Aya Open Science Initiative](https://sites.google.com/cohere.com/aya-en/home) by Cohere For AI. |
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This dataset can be used for any purpose, whether academic or commercial, under the terms of the [Apache 2.0](https://opensource.org/license/apache-2-0) License. |
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Supported Tasks: |
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- Training LLMs |
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- Synthetic Data Generation |
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- Data Augmentation |
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- Question Answering |
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Languages: Tamil Version: 1.0 |
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# Dataset Overview |
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`tamil_stories` is a corpus of 1202 records generated by converting scraped stories into instruction-style. This Dataset can be used for the following tasks: |
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- Given the story, generate the appropriate title for the story. |
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- Given some prominent characters/words from the story along with the title, generate the complete story. |
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# Intended Uses |
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While immediately valuable for instruction fine tuning large language models, as a corpus of instruction prompts, this dataset also presents a valuable opportunity for synthetic data generation. |
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For example, prompt-completions could be submitted as few-shot examples to a large open language model to generate new stories in a similar style. |
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# Dataset |
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## Load with Datasets |
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To load this dataset with Datasets, you'll just need to install Datasets as `pip install datasets --upgrade` and then use the following code: |
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```python |
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from datasets import load_dataset |
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ds = load_dataset('aitamilnadu/tamil_stories') |
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``` |
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## Purpose of Collection |
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Tamil is a low-resource language (inspite of having rich literature) where there are no instruct-style dataset to the best of my knowledge. |
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This was created as a part of [Aya Open Science Initiative](https://sites.google.com/cohere.com/aya-en/home) from Cohere For AI to make sure Tamil is well represented in the space of AI/ML. |
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Unlike other datasets that are limited to non-commercial use, this dataset can be used, modified, and extended for any purpose, including academic or commercial applications. |
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## Sources |
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The following are the websites from which the data is scraped. |
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- [Siruvarmalar](https://www.siruvarmalar.com/) |
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- [Tamilsurangam](https://www.tamilsurangam.in/) |
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The scripts used for scraping and cleaning the data can be found here: |
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[Tamilsurangam Webscraper](https://github.com/miluckshan-j/tamilsurangam-webscraper), |
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[Siruvarmalar Webscraper](https://github.com/miluckshan-j/siruvarmalar-webscraper) |
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[Dataset Creation](https://github.com/miluckshan-j/tamil-dataset-creation-tools) |
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- The scraped data is carefully analysed making sure there are no missed words, spelling mistakes and the data is in Tamil only. |
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- Words/characters are manually added to stories by volunteers. |
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- Finally, converted the pre-processed data into instruct-style prompts and completions. |
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## Templates |
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For the creation of instruct-style prompts and completions from the scraped data, the following templates were used: |
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Template Id: 1. Given the story, generate the appropriate title for the story. |
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```python |
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Prompt: |
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கீழே கொடுக்கப்பட்டுள்ள கதைக்குப் பொருத்தமான தலைப்பைக் கொடு. |
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கதை: {Story} |
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Completion: |
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கொடுக்கப்பட்டுள்ள கதைக்குப் பொருத்தமான தலைப்பு '{Title}' என்பதாகும். |
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``` |
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Template Id: 2. Given some prominent characters/words from the story along with the title, generate the complete story. |
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```python |
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Prompt: |
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கீழே கொடுக்கப்பட்டுள்ள வார்த்தைகளையும் தலைப்பையும் பயன்படுத்தி சிறு கதை எழுதுக. |
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வார்த்தைகள்: {Comma_Seperated_Words} |
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தலைப்பு: {Title} |
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Completion: |
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{Story} |
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``` |
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## Personal or Sensitive Data |
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This dataset contains public information. To my knowledge, there are no private person’s personal identifiers or sensitive information. |
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## Language |
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Tamil |
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# Known Limitations |
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- The meanings used in the prompts/completions are chosen randomly based on the availability of complete sentences and this may reflect some bias by ignoring other meanings written by other scholars. |
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# Contributors |
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- [miluckshan-j](https://github.com/miluckshan-j) |
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- [chezhian0599](https://github.com/chezhian0599) |
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- [AbinayaM02](https://github.com/AbinayaM02) |
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- [anitha67](https://github.com/anitha67) |
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- [vijiv11](https://github.com/vijiv11) |
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- [Lagstill](https://github.com/Lagstill) |
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- [Merlinecodes](https://github.com/Merlinecodes) |
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