README.md

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# Dataset Card for Thai Literature Corpora (TLC)

## Table of Contents
- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
  - [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
  - [Supported Tasks](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
  - [Languages](#languages)
- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
  - [Data Instances](#data-instances)
  - [Data Fields](#data-instances)
  - [Data Splits](#data-instances)
- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)
  - [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale)
  - [Source Data](#source-data)
  - [Annotations](#annotations)
  - [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information)
- [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data)
  - [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset)
  - [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases)
  - [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations)
- [Additional Information](#additional-information)
  - [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators)
  - [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)
  - [Citation Information](#citation-information)

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage:** https://attapol.github.io/tlc.html
- **Leaderboard:** https://www.kaggle.com/c/wisesight-sentiment/
- **Paper:**
- **Leaderboard:** 
- **Point of Contact:**  Jitkapat Sawatphol, Attapol Rutherford; attapolrutherford at gmail.com

### Dataset Summary
Thai Literature Corpora (TLC): Corpora of machine-ingestible Thai classical literature texts.

It consists of two datasets:

## TLC set
It is texts from [Vajirayana Digital Library](https://vajirayana.org/), stored by chapters and stanzas (non-tokenized).

tlc v.2.0 (6/17/19 : a total of 34 documents, 292,270 lines, 31,790,734 characters)
tlc v.1.0 (6/11/19 : a total of 25 documents, 113,981 lines, 28,775,761 characters)

## TNHC set
It is texts from Thai National Historical Corpus, stored by lines (manually tokenized).

tnhc v.1.0 (6/25/19 : a total of 47 documents, 756,478 lines, 13,361,142 characters)

### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

Language Modeling, Language Generation


### Languages

Thai

## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

```
{
    "ch_num": "๑",
    "title": "กากี กลอนสุภาพ",
    "text": [
      [
        "๏ จักกล่าวอดีตนิทานแต่ปางก่อน\n",
        "เมื่อครั้งองค์สมเด็จพระชินวร\tยังสัญจรแสวงหาโพธิญาณ\n",
        "เสวยชาติเป็นสกุณาพระยานก\tจึงชักเรื่องชาดกมาบรรหาร\n",
        "หวังแสดงแห่งจิตหญิงพาล\tให้ชายชาญรู้เชิงกระสัตรี ฯ\n"
      ]
}
```

### Data Fields

- `ch_num`: chapter number in Thai Numerals (๑, ๒, ๓, ๔, ๕, ๖, ๗, ๘, ๙, ๑๐, ...)  
- `title`: chapter name
- `text`: each item corresponds to one stanzas, each line is a couplet which can be seperated by `\t`

### Data Splits

tlc v.2.0 (6/17/19 : a total of 34 documents, 292,270 lines, 31,790,734 characters)
tlc v.1.0 (6/11/19 : a total of 25 documents, 113,981 lines, 28,775,761 characters)

## TNHC set
It is texts from Thai National Historical Corpus, stored by lines (manually tokenized).

tnhc v.1.0 (6/25/19 : a total of 47 documents, 756,478 lines, 13,361,142 characters)

|           | tlc2.0 | tlc1.0 | tnhc  |
|-----------|-------|-------|-------|
| # documents | 34 | 25  | 47  |
| # lines     | 292,270 | 113,981  | 756,478  |

## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

Originally, the dataset was compiled for the [Thai Poetry Generator](https://github.com/jitkapat/thaipoetrygenerator) at Chulalongkorn university as the Final project for `2209372 Introduction to Computational Linguistics` by [Jitkapat Sawatphol](https://jitkapat.github.io/) (Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University).

### Source Data

#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

[More Information Needed]


#### Who are the source language producers?

[More Information Needed]

### Annotations

#### Annotation process

[More Information Needed]

#### Who are the annotators?

[More Information Needed]

### Personal and Sensitive Information

There is no personal information.

## Considerations for Using the Data

### Social Impact of Dataset

[More Information Needed]

### Discussion of Biases

[More Information Needed]

### Other Known Limitations

[More Information Needed]


## Additional Information

### Dataset Curators

Thanks [Jitkapat Sawatphol](https://jitkapat.github.io/) (Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University), and [Attapol Rutherford](https://attapol.github.io/) (Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University)

### Licensing Information

[More Information Needed]

### Citation Information

Please cite the following if you make use of the dataset:

Jitkapat Sawatphol, and Attapol Rutherford. 2019. **Thai Literature Corpora (TLC)**.

BibTeX:
```
@misc{
  author={Sawatphol, Jitkapat},
  title={Thai Literature Corpora},
  year={2019},
  howpublished={\\url{https://attapol.github.io/tlc.html}}
}
```