PoetryMTEB/ArabicPoetryPeriodsClassification

Arabic Poetry Periods Classification

This dataset contains Arabic poetry with period classification. Each poem is classified into a specific historical period (Category).

Dataset Information

The dataset is split into train (80%) and validation (20%) sets with stratified sampling based on the Category (period) to ensure balanced distribution.

• Train set: 20000 examples
• Validation set: 5000 examples
• Total: 25000 examples

Data Format

The dataset is stored in Parquet format with the following fields:

• id: Unique identifier
• Title: Poem title
• Author: Author name
• Category: Period category (historical period)
• Poem: Poem text

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("PoetryMTEB/ArabicPoetryPeriodsClassification")

# Access train and validation splits
train_data = dataset['train']
validation_data = dataset['validation']

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite the following paper:

@INPROCEEDINGS{10638967,
  author={Ba Alawi, Abdulfattah E. and Bozkurt, Ferhat and Yağanoğlu, Mete},
  booktitle={2024 4th International Conference on Emerging Smart Technologies and Applications (eSmarTA)}, 
  title={BERT-AraPeotry: BERT-based Arabic Poems Classification Model}, 
  year={2024},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={1-5},
  keywords={Training;Text analysis;Computational modeling;Bidirectional control;Writing;Transformers;Natural language processing;Arabic Text;Poem;Sentiment Analysis;Natural Language Processing},
  doi={10.1109/eSmarTA62850.2024.10638967}
}