README.md

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# Khmer Emotional Text Dataset 🇰🇭

## Overview

**Khmer Emotional Text Dataset** is a public dataset for emotion classification in the Khmer language.

The dataset contains short and medium-length Khmer texts labeled with one emotional category. It is designed for training and evaluating Natural Language Processing (NLP) models such as:

- Sentiment Analysis
- Emotion Classification
- Text Classification
- Transformer Fine-tuning
- Large Language Models (LLMs)

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## Dataset Structure

Each sample contains three fields:

| Column | Type | Description |
|---------|------|-------------|
| id | int | Unique sample ID |
| text | string | Khmer text |
| label | string | Emotion label |

Example:

```json
{
  "id": 1,
  "text": "ខ្ញុំសប្បាយចិត្តណាស់ថ្ងៃនេះបានជួបជុំគ្រួសារ។",
  "label": "happy"
}
```

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## Labels

The dataset contains the following emotion classes:

- happy
- sad
- angry
- fear
- stress
- surprise
- neutral

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## Usage

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("phonsobon/Text_Emotional_kh")

print(dataset)
```

Example:

```python
print(dataset["train"][0])
```

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## Applications

This dataset can be used for:

- Emotion Classification
- Sentiment Analysis
- NLP Research
- Fine-tuning BERT
- XLM-RoBERTa
- mBERT
- Llama
- Gemma
- Qwen
- Khmer NLP

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## Language

Khmer (km)

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## License

Apache License 2.0

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## Citation

```bibtex
@dataset{phon2026khmeremotion,
  author = {Phon, Sobon},
  title = {Khmer Emotional Text Dataset},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/phonsobon/Text_Emotional_kh}
}
```

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## Author

**Sobon Phon**

GitHub: https://github.com/phonsobon

Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/phonsobon