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language:
- ps
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# Dataset Card for Pashto Wikipedia Clean Corpus

## Dataset Description

This dataset is a cleaned version of the Pashto Wikipedia dump. It has been processed to remove HTML tags, URLs, special characters, and numbers. The text has been normalized and filtered to remove very short entries.

### Languages

The dataset is in Pashto (ps).

## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

Each instance in the dataset contains the following fields:

- `url`:   A string of cleaned Pashto text url.
- `title`: A string of cleaned Pashto text title.
- `text`:  A string of cleaned Pashto text.

### Data Fields

- `url`:   A string of cleaned Pashto text url.
- `title`: A string of cleaned Pashto text title.
- `text`:  A string of cleaned Pashto text.

### Data Splits

The dataset contains only a train split.

## Dataset Creation

### Source Data

The source data is the Pashto Wikipedia dump from Hugging Face datasets.

### Preprocessing

The following preprocessing steps were applied:
1. Removal of HTML tags
2. Removal of URLs
3. Removal of special characters and numbers
4. Unicode normalization
5. Removal of extra whitespace
6. Filtering out entries with less than 5 words

## Considerations for Using the Data

This dataset is intended for use in language modeling and other NLP tasks for the Pashto language. Users should be aware that while efforts have been made to clean the data, some noise or errors may still be present.

## Additional Information

This dataset was created and uploaded by Hanif Rahman on 21 July 2024.