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license: apache-2.0
language:
  - ur
pretty_name: Urdu_news_dataset

Urdu Text Dataset Analysis

Dataset: cleaned_content_only_unique.csv

Dataset Overview

  • File Information
    • Size: 14.59 MB (15,297,210 bytes)
    • Encoding: UTF-8

Basic Statistics

  • Total Characters: 8,394,639
  • Total Characters (excluding spaces): 6,982,483
  • Total Lines: 4,151
  • Total Paragraphs: 1
  • Total Sentences: 29,005
  • Total Words: 1,559,432

Linguistic Analysis

  • Vocabulary Size: 52,112
  • Average Word Length: 4.33 characters
  • Median Word Length: 4.0 characters
  • Average Sentence Length: 53.76 words
  • Median Sentence Length: 26.0 words
  • Longest Word: عبدالظاہرکوتعزیرات (18 characters)
  • Shortest Word: ا (1 characters)

Structural Analysis

  • Average Paragraph Length: 1416307.00 words
  • Maximum Paragraph Length: 1,416,307 words
  • Minimum Paragraph Length: 1,416,307 words
  • Empty Lines: 0

Line Length Statistics

  • Mean: 2021.32 characters
  • Median: 1783.00 characters
  • Maximum: 22,626 characters
  • Minimum: 17 characters

Vocabulary Analysis

  • Total Unique Words: 52,112
  • Hapax Legomena (words appearing once): 20,143
  • Dis Legomena (words appearing twice): 6,625
  • Vocabulary Richness: 0.0334

Most Frequent Words (Top 20)

Rank Word Frequency
1 ا 31,618
2 ی 19,845
3 ے 8,769
4 ر 6,763
5 یں 5,139
6 ي 4,323
7 ل 4,171
8 ن 4,013
9 ساي 3,105
10 فاي 2,977
11 ں 2,899
12 ٹ 2,804
13 س 2,690
14 م 2,454
15 یوں 2,086
16 پاي 2,024
17 واي 1,996
18 لاي 1,986
19 جاي 1,853
20 بناي 1,820

Character Analysis

Unicode Categories Distribution

  • Nd: 75,921
  • Lo: 6,670,503
  • Po: 74,303
  • Mn: 157,425
  • Cf: 159
  • Lm: 22

Writing Scripts Used

  • DIGIT: 75,921
  • ARABIC: 6,902,253
  • ZERO: 159

Special Characters (Top 20)

Character Unicode Name Count
ٔ ARABIC HAMZA ABOVE 102,571
، ARABIC COMMA 36,006
ٓ ARABIC MADDAH ABOVE 31,547
۔ ARABIC FULL STOP 29,005
ِ ARABIC KASRA 10,654
؟ ARABIC QUESTION MARK 9,106
ُ ARABIC DAMMA 6,368
ٰ ARABIC LETTER SUPERSCRIPT ALEF 3,789
ً ARABIC FATHATAN 1,664
ّ ARABIC SHADDA 694
٭ ARABIC FIVE POINTED STAR 171
ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE 159
َ ARABIC FATHA 109
؛ ARABIC SEMICOLON 15
ْ ARABIC SUKUN 6
ٖ ARABIC SUBSCRIPT ALEF 6
ٍ ARABIC KASRATAN 5
ٌ ARABIC DAMMATAN 5
٘ ARABIC MARK NOON GHUNNA 4
ٕ ARABIC HAMZA BELOW 2

Dataset Quality Metrics

  • Text appears to be properly segmented into paragraphs and sentences.
  • Unicode encoding is properly maintained.
  • Special characters and scripts are consistently used.

Notes and Methodology

  • Analysis performed using Python 3 with Unicode support.
  • Word boundaries determined using regular expressions.
  • Sentences delimited by Urdu punctuation marks.
  • Character analysis includes Unicode category and script information.
  • Vocabulary analysis includes frequency distribution and richness metrics.

Potential Use Cases

  • Urdu language processing.
  • Linguistic research.
  • Text classification.
  • Language modeling.
  • Vocabulary analysis.

Data Format

  • Plain text in CSV.
  • UTF-8 encoded.
  • Line-delimited paragraphs.
  • Standard Urdu orthography.
@misc {haq_nawaz_malik_2024,
    author       = { {HAQ NAWAZ MALIK} },
    title        = { Urdu_news_Dataset (Revision b36554a) },
    year         = 2024,
    url          = { https://huggingface.co/datasets/Omarrran/Urdu_news_Dataset },
    doi          = { 10.57967/hf/3597 },
    publisher    = { Hugging Face }
}