metadata

annotations_creators:
  - SLPL
language_creators:
  - SLPL
language:
  - fa
license:
  - mit
multilinguality:
  - monolingual
size_categories:
  - 200M<n<300M
source_datasets:
  - commoncrawl
task_categories:
  - language-modeling
  - masked-language-modeling
task_ids:
  - language-modeling
  - masked-language-modeling
pretty_name: naab (A ready-to-use plug-and-play corpus in Farsi)

naab: A ready-to-use plug-and-play corpus in Farsi

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Dataset Structure

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  'example_field': ...,
  ...
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Data Splits

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Dataset Creation

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Source Data

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Initial Data Collection and Normalization

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Annotations

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Personal and Sensitive Information

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Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

Farsi is a language used by millions of people, for thousands of years; therefore, there exists numerous resources for this language. However, no-one has ever published a big enough easy to use corpus of textual data. Our dataset eases the path of pre-training and fine-tuning Farsi Language Models (LMs) in self-supervised manner which can lead to better tools for retention and development of Farsi. As a matter of fact, the informal portion of naab contains various dialects including, Turkish, Luri, etc. which are under-represented languages. Although the amount of data is comparably small, but it can be helpful in training a multi-lingual Tokenizer for Farsi variations. As mentioned before, some parts of our dataset are crawled from social media which in result means it contains ethnic, religious, and gender biases.

Discussion of Biases

During Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA), we found samples of data including biased opinions about race, religion, and gender. Based on the result we saw in our samples, only a small portion of informal data can be considered biased. Therefore, we anticipate that it won’t affect the trained language model on this data. Furthermore, we decided to keep this small part of data as it may become helpful in training models for classifying harmful and hateful texts.

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Additional Information

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  author    = {Author List},
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  year      = {2525}
}

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Contributions

Thanks to @sadra and @elnazrahmati for adding this dataset.

Datasets:

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naab