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license: cc0-1.0
tags:
- kyrgyz
- common-crawl
- web-scraping
- text-corpus
- low-resource-languages
- nlp
- turkic-languages
language:
- ky
task_categories:
- text-generation
- fill-mask
- text-classification
size_categories:
- 100M<n<1B
pretty_name: Kyrgyz CommonCrawl Text Corpus
---
# Kyrgyz CommonCrawl Dataset
A **271 MB** text corpus of Kyrgyz language data extracted from [CommonCrawl](https://commoncrawl.org/) — one of the largest openly available Kyrgyz text collections for NLP research.
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## Dataset Description
This dataset contains Kyrgyz-language web text scraped from CommonCrawl archives, filtered by the Kyrgyz language tag (`ky`). The data covers a wide range of domains including news, blogs, government sites, educational content, and general web pages.
**Why this matters:** Kyrgyz is a low-resource Turkic language spoken by ~7 million people. High-quality text corpora are essential for training language models, yet very few large-scale Kyrgyz datasets exist publicly.
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## Dataset Summary
| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| **Total size** | 271 MB |
| **Language** | Kyrgyz (ky) |
| **Format** | CSV |
| **Source** | CommonCrawl (filtered by `ky` language tag) |
| **Files** | 31 CSV files |
| **License** | CC0 (public domain) |
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## File Structure
| File | Size | Description |
|------|------|-------------|
| `data_MN.csv` | 29.6 MB | Large text segment |
| `data.csv` | 9.98 MB | General web text |
| `data_bilesinbi.csv` | 7.11 MB | Domain-specific data |
| `Merged file2.csv` | 1.66 MB | Merged text segments |
| `data_f.csv` | 703 kB | Filtered subset |
| `8april_final.csv` | 634 kB | Cleaned snapshot |
| `data.numbers` | 581 kB | Statistics/metadata |
| `bia.csv` | 37.6 kB | Small subset |
| `data_ecoproduct.csv` | 19.9 kB | Eco/product domain |
| ... | ... | Additional CSV files |
---
## Use Cases
- **Language model pretraining** — Training or fine-tuning LLMs for Kyrgyz (e.g., GPT, BERT, LLaMA)
- **Text classification** — Building Kyrgyz text classifiers
- **Machine translation** — Source data for Kyrgyz ↔ other language pairs
- **Linguistic research** — Studying modern Kyrgyz web language usage
- **Punctuation / grammar models** — Training data for text normalization tools
- **NER & information extraction** — Building Kyrgyz entity recognizers
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## Data Collection
The data was collected by:
1. Querying CommonCrawl archives for pages tagged with the Kyrgyz language identifier (`ky`)
2. Extracting text content from the matched web pages
3. Cleaning and organizing into CSV format
4. Deduplication and quality filtering
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## Preprocessing Recommendations
Before using this dataset, consider:
- **Deduplication** — Web-crawled data often contains duplicate paragraphs across pages
- **Language verification** — Some pages may contain mixed-language content (Kyrgyz + Russian is common)
- **Quality filtering** — Remove boilerplate (navigation menus, footers, cookie notices)
- **Encoding normalization** — Ensure consistent Cyrillic encoding (UTF-8)
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## Limitations
- **Web-crawled data** may contain noise, boilerplate HTML artifacts, and mixed-language content
- **No manual curation** — quality varies across files
- **Potential duplicates** across different CSV files
- **Bias toward web-present content** — overrepresentation of news and government text, underrepresentation of informal speech
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## Related Resources
- 🤗 [Kyrgyz Punctuation Model](https://huggingface.co/Zarinaaa/punctuator_model) — Trained using data from this corpus
- 🤗 [Kyrgyz Morphological Analysis](https://huggingface.co/Zarinaaa/morphological_analysis) — BERT-based morphological tagger
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## Citation
```bibtex
@dataset{uvalieva2024kyrgyz_commoncrawl,
author = {Uvalieva, Zarina},
title = {Kyrgyz CommonCrawl Text Corpus},
year = {2024},
url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/Zarinaaa/commoncrawl_dataset}
}
```
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## Author
**Zarina Uvalieva** — ML Engineer specializing in NLP for low-resource languages.
- 🤗 [HuggingFace](https://huggingface.co/Zarinaaa) |