| --- |
| language: |
| - sl |
| license: cc-by-sa-4.0 |
| pretty_name: CankarParallel |
| size_categories: |
| - 10K<n<100K |
| task_categories: |
| - text-generation |
| tags: |
| - slovene |
| - style-transfer |
| - ivan-cankar |
| - public-domain |
| --- |
| |
| # CankarParallel - plain Slovene to Ivan Cankar's prose voice |
|
|
| 9,950 parallel passages for Slovene literary style transfer. Each row |
| pairs a passage of Ivan Cankar's prose with a plain modern Slovene rendering of |
| the same content. |
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| Built for [CankarGPT](https://github.com/Mult1Hunter/cankar-gpt), a from-scratch |
| Slovene micro-LLM. The pairs train the direction `plain -> cankar`. |
|
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| ## Fields |
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| - `passage_id` - sha256 of the Cankar text, first 16 hex chars |
| - `cankar` - the original passage, **unmodified public-domain text** |
| - `plain` - a plain modern Slovene rendering, **generated** |
| - `title`, `url` - the source work |
| - `model`, `in_tokens`, `out_tokens` - generation provenance |
|
|
| ## How it was made |
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| The Cankar side comes from Wikivir (Slovene Wikisource), segmented into 2-6 |
| sentence paragraph-bounded passages. Only prose genres were used - Cankar's |
| plays are excluded, because a paragraph in drama is a speaker turn and |
| segmenting them as prose glues speaker labels into the text. |
|
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| The plain side was generated with `claude-sonnet-5` via the Batch API, using one |
| fixed "plain Slovene register" prompt (sha256 `cec36eb07e77c6d9`) |
| shared with the inference-time drafting stage, so the styler never meets a |
| distribution at inference it was not trained on. |
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| Model choice was measured, not assumed. A 50-passage pilot against a cheaper |
| model found broken Slovene grammar - wrong dual verb forms, gender |
| disagreement, a reflexive-only verb used transitively - which a char-ngram |
| style classifier scored identically to the stronger model's output. On a |
| low-resource language the cheap option corrupts the data invisibly. |
|
|
| 9,950 of 10,049 responses passed the |
| quality filters. Rejections are quarantined, never silently dropped. |
|
|
| ## Held-out works are excluded |
|
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| Passages from the frozen held-out evaluation set (holdout sha256 |
| `07ccca96a4fe339d`) were excluded **before** generation. Pairs |
| built from held-out works would contaminate any evaluation of a model trained |
| on them, one-way and undetectably. |
|
|
| ## Licensing and attribution |
|
|
| **CC BY-SA 4.0.** Attribute **[Slovene Wikisource (Wikivir) |
| contributors](https://sl.wikisource.org)**, whose volunteer transcriptions the |
| `cankar` side reproduces, and this dataset. |
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| Ivan Cankar died in 1918, so the underlying work is public domain. The |
| transcriptions are a separate layer: whether a faithful transcription of a |
| public-domain text attracts rights of its own is unsettled in EU law - it lacks |
| the originality copyright requires, but the sui generis database right protects |
| substantial investment regardless. CC BY-SA is applied deliberately rather than |
| because the question was answered: it is what Wikivir asks for, it costs nothing |
| here, and the alternative required being right about an open question. |
|
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| Share-alike applies to redistribution of the dataset. Whether it reaches model |
| weights trained on it is unsettled everywhere and is not a position this card |
| takes. |
|
|
| ## Reproducing |
|
|
| ``` |
| uv run cankar pairs segment |
| uv run cankar pairs destyle --parse-only # re-derives pairs from the raw log |
| uv run cankar pairs publish |
| ``` |
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| The middle step re-parses committed raw responses and costs nothing. Generating |
| them from scratch is `destyle --limit N`, which submits paid batches. |
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| Provenance: corpus sha256 `d9b05bf04db96db6`, passages sha256 |
| `e1cad3a2643782f9`, pairs sha256 `c387b33c7d036b95`, |
| generated at 2026-07-28T12:39:40+00:00 from git `acf0d2c`. |
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