README.md

---
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  - name: question
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  - name: answer
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  - name: okres
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  - name: library
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  - name: category
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  - name: answer_diacritics_korektor
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  - name: question_spell_korektor
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  - name: answer_spell_korektor
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configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
license: cc-by-nc-3.0
task_categories:
- text-generation
- question-answering
- text2text-generation
language:
- cs
- en
- sk
pretty_name: Zeptej se knihovny
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
---
# Dataset Card for Ask the Library (Ptejte se knihovny)

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Ask the Library contains questions and answers scraped from the webpage: https://www.ptejteseknihovny.cz/.

## Dataset Details

### Dataset Description

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Ask the Library contains questions and answers scraped from the webpage: https://www.ptejteseknihovny.cz/. The questions have a broad range of topics like history, language, biology and others.


- **Curated by:** AIC FEE CTU
- **Language(s) (NLP):** Czech
- **License:** CC-BY-NC 3.0

## Uses

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This dataset can be used for the process of instruction tuning. Moreover, it can be also utilized for question-answering and other NLP tasks.

## Dataset Structure

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The dataset contains only one split. It contains following fields:
- title: The title of the question.
- question: The asked question.
- answer: The answer provided by the libraries.
- okres: Okres (NUTS4) where the library is located.
- library: Name of the library that proveded answer.
- category: category of the question.
- used_sources: Sometimes there is provided list of used sources.
- date: Datetime when the question was asked.
- URL: url of the question
- id: id number of the row
- language: language detected with lingua Python library with human fixed outliers

## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

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The motivation for collecting this dataset was the scarcity of available Czech instruction tuning datasets.

### Source Data

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The source is https://www.ptejteseknihovny.cz/.

#### Data Collection and Processing

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The dataset was scraped and the text fields were cleaned using ftfy Python library.

#### Who are the source data producers?

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The producers of the source data are the employees of several Czech libraries and the users of their page who asked the questions.

## Bias, Risks, and Limitations

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The dataset contains only question of users that knew about ptejteseknihovny service (probably clients of the libraries).

### Recommendations

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Users should be made aware of the risks, biases and limitations of the dataset.

## Citation

<!-- If there is a paper or blog post introducing the dataset, the APA and Bibtex information for that should go in this section. -->

```bibtex
@mastersthesis{mlynar2025llmadapt,
  author  = {Tomáš Mlynář},
  title   = {Compute-constrained LLM adaptation to Czech language},
  school  = {Czech Technical University in Prague},
  year    = {2025},
  type    = {Master's thesis},
  month   = {6},
  note    = {Supervisor: Ing. Herbert Ullrich},
  url     = {http://hdl.handle.net/10467/123587}
}
```