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modern_english_sample.txt
This file is an excerpt from the English Wikipedia article
Natural language processing,
retrieved 2026-05-11 via the MediaWiki API (prop=extracts&explaintext=1).
The excerpt covers the article's introduction and a portion of the History section (through "Statistical NLP"). Wikipedia section headers were removed programmatically so the text reads as continuous prose suitable for character-level language-model evaluation; no other modifications were made.
License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Attribution: "Natural language processing", Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, retrieved 2026-05-11. Authors: see the article's edit history.
Any redistribution of this file or derivative works must preserve this attribution and license.
shakespeare_input.txt and shakespeare_sonnets.txt
Public domain. The complete works of William Shakespeare have been in the public domain for centuries.
cities/ dataset
The cities-of-origin classification dataset is released by the CIS 5300 course staff under CC BY 4.0.