README.md

---
language:
- en
tags:
- victorian
- text-classification
pretty_name: Victorian authorship
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
task_categories:
- text-classification
license: cc
---
# Victorian authorship
The [Victorian authorship dataset](https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/708a9870-915e-4d59-b54d-938af563c196/content).
Which Victorian author wrote the given text?

# Configurations and tasks
| **Configuration** | **Task**                  | Description                                                   |
|-------------------|---------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------|
| authorship        | Classification                | Which Victorian author wrote the given text?|

# Usage
```python
from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("mstz/victorian_authorship", "authorship")["train"]
```

# Features
|**Feature**        |**Type**       |
|-------------------|---------------|
| text               | `[string]`    |

# Citation
Cite this dataset as
```
@phdthesis{gungor2018benchmarking,
  title={Benchmarking authorship attribution techniques using over a thousand books by fifty victorian era novelists},
  author={Gungor, Abdulmecit},
  year={2018},
  school={Purdue University}
}
```