README.md

metadata

language:
  - ar
license: cc-by-4.0
size_categories:
  - 100K<n<1M
task_categories:
  - text-generation
  - text2text-generation
pretty_name: Algerian Darija
dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: Text
      dtype: string
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_bytes: 30499704
      num_examples: 2324
    - name: v1
      num_bytes: 23477688
      num_examples: 168655
  download_size: 44762377
  dataset_size: 53977392
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/train-*
      - split: v1
        path: data/v1-*
tags:
  - Darija
  - Algeria

Overview

This dataset contains text in Algerian Darija, collected from a variety of sources including existing datasets on Hugging Face, web scraping, and YouTube transcript APIs.

• The train split consists more then 2k rows of uncleaned text data.

• The v1 split consists more than 170k rows of split and partially cleaned text.

Sources

The text data was gathered from:

• Hugging Face Datasets: Pre-existing datasets relevant to Algerian Darija.
• Web Scraping: Content from various online sources.
• YouTube API: Transcriptions from Algerian Darija videos and comments on YouTube.

Data Cleaning

Initial data cleaning steps included:

• Removing duplicate emojis and characters.
• Removing URLs, email addresses, and phone numbers.

Note: Some text data from the YouTube Transcript API may contain imperfections due to limitations in speech-to-text technology for Algerian Darija. Additionally, the dataset still requires further cleaning to improve its quality for more advanced NLP tasks.