README.md

metadata

language:
  - ro
license: cc-by-sa-4.0
task_categories:
  - fill-mask
tags:
  - romanian
  - educational
  - fill-in-the-blank
  - wikipedia
  - academic
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K

EduRO-FillBlank

A Romanian-language dataset of 72,541 fill-in-the-blank examples extracted from Romanian Wikipedia, covering 45 academic domains. Built to support fine-tuning of masked language models for automatic educational quiz generation.

Dataset Summary

Property	Value
Language	Romanian
Domain	Academic (university-level)
Total examples (raw)	100,212
Total examples (cleaned)	72,541
Sources	4,364 Romanian Wikipedia articles
Categories	45 academic domains
License	CC BY-SA 4.0

Splits

Split	File	Examples
Train	eduro_v2_train.csv	58,032
Validation	eduro_v2_val.csv	7,254
Test	eduro_v2_test.csv	7,255

Dataset Structure

Column	Type	Description
sentence	string	Original sentence from Wikipedia
masked_sentence	string	Sentence with target word replaced by _____
answer	string	The masked word (correct answer)
category	string	Academic domain (e.g., Biologie, Informatică)
source	string	Wikipedia article title

Example

{
  "sentence": "Fotosinteza este procesul biochimic prin care plantele produc glucoza.",
  "masked_sentence": "Fotosinteza este procesul _____ prin care plantele produc glucoza.",
  "answer": "biochimic",
  "category": "Biologie",
  "source": "Fotosinteza"
}

How to Load

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("dariurs/EduRO-FillBlank")
train = dataset["train"]

Construction Pipeline

1. Collection — Romanian Wikipedia API, 45 academic categories, 4,364 articles
2. Masking — scoring algorithm prioritizing content words
3. Cleaning — 6-stage pipeline:
   • Filter 1: Sub-token removal (−5,112)
   • Filter 2: Frequency filtering (−16,631)
   • Filter 3: Stopword removal (−2,463)
   • Filter 4: Sentence quality (−3,386)
   • Filter 5: Answer consistency (−68)
   • Filter 6: Deduplication (−11)
4. Split — 80/10/10 train/val/test

Associated Model

dariurs/eduro-bert-romanian-fillblank-v3

Citation

[to be added after paper publication]