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license: apache-2.0 |
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task_categories: |
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- text-generation |
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- text2text-generation |
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language: |
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- si |
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tags: |
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- articles |
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- books |
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- news |
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- sinhala |
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- wiki |
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- wikipedia |
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pretty_name: sinhala dataset |
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size_categories: |
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- 1M<n<10M |
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## Sinhala Articles Dataset |
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A large-scale, high-quality Sinhala text corpus curated from diverse sources including news articles, Wikipedia entries, and general web content. This dataset is designed to support a wide range of Sinhala Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. |
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## 📊 Dataset Overview |
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- **Name**: `Navanjana/sinhala-articles` |
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- **Total Samples**: 2,148,688 |
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- **Languages**: Sinhala (`si`) |
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- **Features**: |
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- `text`: A single column containing Sinhala text passages. |
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- **Size**: Approximately 1M < n < 10M entries |
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- **License**: [Apache 2.0](https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0) |
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## 🧾 Dataset Structure |
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The dataset consists of a single split: |
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- `train`: 2,148,688 entries |
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Each entry is a JSON object with the following structure: |
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```json |
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{ |
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"text": "ශ්රී ලංකාව අස්සේ ප්රසිද්ධ වූ වාර්තා මත පදනම්ව නව ගවේෂණ වැඩසටහන් ආරම්භ විය." |
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} |
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``` |
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## 📌 Source Composition |
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The dataset aggregates content from: |
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- **Sinhala News Websites**: Covering current events, politics, economy, and more. |
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- **Sinhala Wikipedia**: Providing encyclopedic knowledge across various domains. |
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- **General Web Articles**: Including blogs, opinion pieces, and other informative content. |
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## 🚀 Applications |
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This corpus is suitable for various NLP tasks in the Sinhala language, such as: |
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- Language Modeling |
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- Text Classification |
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- Machine Translation |
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- Summarization |
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- Sentiment Analysis |
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- Named Entity Recognition |
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## 📂 Accessing the Dataset |
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You can load the dataset directly using the Hugging Face `datasets` library: |
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```python |
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from datasets import load_dataset |
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dataset = load_dataset("Navanjana/sinhala-articles") |
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``` |
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## 📜 License |
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This dataset is distributed under the [Apache 2.0 License](https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0). Please ensure compliance with the terms of use of the original data sources. |
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## 🙏 Acknowledgements |
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We extend our gratitude to the contributors and platforms that provided the original content, enabling the creation of this comprehensive Sinhala text corpus. |
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## 📣 Citation |
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If you utilize this dataset in your research or applications, please cite it as follows: |
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``` |
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@dataset{navanjana_sinhala_articles, |
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author = {Navanjana}, |
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title = {Sinhala Articles Dataset}, |
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year = {2025}, |
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publisher = {Hugging Face}, |
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url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/Navanjana/sinhala-articles} |
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} |
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``` |
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For more information and updates, visit the [dataset page on Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Navanjana/sinhala-articles). |
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