README.md

metadata

dataset_info:
  - config_name: ckb_Arab
    features:
      - name: url
        dtype: string
      - name: text
        dtype: string
      - name: lang
        dtype: string
      - name: lang_score
        dtype: float32
      - name: publish_date
        dtype: string
      - name: publisher
        dtype: string
      - name: title
        dtype: string
      - name: word_count
        dtype: int32
    splits:
      - name: 2026_06_27_part
        num_bytes: 569203659
        num_examples: 158266
    download_size: 234261027
    dataset_size: 569203659
  - config_name: diq_Latn
    features:
      - name: url
        dtype: string
      - name: text
        dtype: string
      - name: lang
        dtype: string
      - name: lang_score
        dtype: float32
      - name: publish_date
        dtype: string
      - name: publisher
        dtype: string
      - name: title
        dtype: string
      - name: word_count
        dtype: int32
    splits:
      - name: 2026_06_27_part
        num_bytes: 1715249
        num_examples: 319
    download_size: 1023258
    dataset_size: 1715249
  - config_name: kmr_Latn
    features:
      - name: url
        dtype: string
      - name: text
        dtype: string
      - name: lang
        dtype: string
      - name: lang_score
        dtype: float32
      - name: publish_date
        dtype: string
      - name: publisher
        dtype: string
      - name: title
        dtype: string
      - name: word_count
        dtype: int32
    splits:
      - name: 2026_06_27_part
        num_bytes: 1415398385
        num_examples: 517335
    download_size: 733886824
    dataset_size: 1415398385
configs:
  - config_name: ckb_Arab
    data_files:
      - split: 2026_06_27_part
        path: ckb_Arab/2026_06_27_part-*
  - config_name: diq_Latn
    data_files:
      - split: 2026_06_27_part
        path: diq_Latn/2026_06_27_part-*
  - config_name: kmr_Latn
    data_files:
      - split: 2026_06_27_part
        path: kmr_Latn/2026_06_27_part-*
language:
  - ku
  - kmr
  - ckb
  - diq
license: cc-by-4.0
pretty_name: Kurdish Web Corpus
size_categories:
  - 100K<n<1M
task_categories:
  - text-generation
  - fill-mask

Dataset Card for Kurdish Web Corpus (Deduplicated)

Dataset Summary

A multilingual corpus of web text in three Kurdish/Zaza varieties — Kurmanji Kurdish (kmr_Latn), Sorani Kurdish (ckb_Arab), and Zazaki (diq_Latn) — scraped from Kurdish-language websites, language-identified with GlotLID, and deduplicated (exact + MinHash near-duplicate removal). See the "Dataset Creation" section below for the full pipeline.

Rows, by language config:

config	language	script	rows	publishers
kmr_Latn	Kurmanji Kurdish	Latin	517,335	51
ckb_Arab	Sorani Kurdish	Arabic	158,266	15
diq_Latn	Zazaki	Latin	319	12

Supported Tasks

Intended as pretraining/fine-tuning text for causal or masked language modeling in under-resourced Kurdish and Zaza varieties. No task-specific labels are provided.

Languages

• kmr — Kurmanji (Northern Kurdish), Latin script
• ckb — Sorani (Central Kurdish), Arabic script
• diq — Zazaki (Dimli), Latin script

Language and lang_score were assigned by GlotLID at scrape time (see kurdish_scrapy) and are carried through unchanged; they are not re-verified by the dedup pipeline.

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

{
  "url": "https://example.com/page-slug",
  "text": "Full page text ...",
  "lang": "kmr_Latn",
  "lang_score": 0.98,
  "publish_date": "2024-01-01",
  "publisher": "example.com",
  "title": "Page title",
  "word_count": 342
}

Data Fields

• url (string): the page's source URL; doubles as a unique document ID.
• text (string): full page text, NFC-normalized.
• lang (string): GlotLID language/script code, one of kmr_Latn, ckb_Arab, diq_Latn.
• lang_score (float32): GlotLID confidence score for lang.
• publish_date (string, nullable): publication/posting date as recorded by the source site.
• publisher (string): source site's domain.
• title (string): page title.
• word_count (int32): whitespace-split word count of text, computed from the final deduplicated text (not carried over from the source).

Data Splits

There is no train/dev/test split. Instead, the split name is a crawl snapshot date: it states that all data was collected up to and including that date. For example, a split named 2026_6_27 means the crawl covers everything gathered through June 27, 2026.

A _part suffix (e.g. 2026_6_27_part) means the crawl was interrupted before it finished — it did not manage to collect all data through that date, so treat it as a partial/incomplete snapshot rather than a clean cutoff. Later, complete uploads may supersede an earlier _part snapshot for the same or a later date.

Row counts for the current snapshot:

config	rows
kmr_Latn	517,335
ckb_Arab	158,266
diq_Latn	319

Dataset Creation

Source Data

Pages were scraped from Kurdish-language websites with kurdish_scrapy, with page text extracted via trafilatura and language-identified with GlotLID at scrape time. Exact- and near-duplicate removal was then run with dedup (this repo).