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    - name: text
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    - name: source_url
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---

# Bengali Poems Classification

This dataset contains Bengali poems with genre classification labels. The dataset includes 6,070 poems from 137 poets, categorized into 21 classes.

## Dataset Information

- **Number of poets**: 137
- **Total number of poems**: 6,070
- **Number of classes**: 21
- **Train/Validation/Test split**: 6:2:2 (stratified by class)

## Data Format

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

- `id`: Unique identifier
- `poet`: Poet name
- `title`: Poem title
- `class`: Poem class/genre (e.g., "ভক্তিমূলক", "প্রেম/ইরোটিক", etc.)
- `text`: Poem text content
- `source_url`: Source URL (if available)

## Poem Classes

The dataset includes 21 poem classes. Some of the main classes include:
- Love/Erotic (প্রেম/ইরোটিক)
- Reflective (চিন্তাশীল)
- Humanism (মানবতা)
- Sonnet (সনেট)
- Devotional (ভক্তিমূলক)
- Allegory (রূপক)
- Nature (প্রকৃতি)
- Rhymes (ছড়া)
- Patriotic (দেশপ্রেমমূলক)
- And more...

## Train/Validation/Test Split

The dataset is split into:
- **Training set**: 60% of the data
- **Validation set**: 20% of the data
- **Test set**: 20% of the data

The split is performed with stratified sampling based on poem classes to ensure balanced distribution across all splits.

## Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite:

```
@inproceedings{10.1145/3582768.3582788,
  author = {Shuhan, Mirza Kamrul Bashar and Dey, Rupasree and Saha, Sourav and Anjum, Md Shafa Ul and Zaman, Tarannum Shaila},
  title = {A Stylometric Dataset for Bengali Poems},
  year = {2023},
  isbn = {9781450397629},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3582768.3582788},
  doi = {10.1145/3582768.3582788},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2022 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval},
  pages = {176–180},
  numpages = {5},
  keywords = {Bengali Poems, Corpora, Datasets, Language Resources, Natural Language Processing, Stylometric Datasets},
  location = {Bangkok, Thailand},
  series = {NLPIR '22}
}
```

## Source

The original dataset can be found at: https://github.com/shuhanmirza/Bengali-Poem-Dataset

## Original Dataset Structure

The original dataset has a three-level directory structure:
- **Level 1**: Poet name (poet directory)
- **Level 2**: Poem title (poem directory)
- **Level 3**: Three text files:
  - `CLASS.txt`: Poem class/genre
  - `SOURCE.txt`: Source URL and timestamp
  - `{title}.txt`: Poem text content