| --- |
| 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](https://github.com/cisnlp/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](https://github.com/cikay/kurdish_scrapy)) and are carried through unchanged; |
| they are not re-verified by the dedup pipeline. |
|
|
| ## Dataset Structure |
|
|
| ### Data Instances |
|
|
| ```json |
| { |
| "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](https://github.com/cikay/kurdish_scrapy), with page text extracted via |
| [trafilatura](https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura) and language-identified with GlotLID at |
| scrape time. Exact- and near-duplicate removal was then run with |
| [dedup](https://github.com/cikay/dedup) (this repo). |
|
|
