README.md

---
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: text
    dtype: string
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 45957987986
    num_examples: 16896817
  download_size: 21312867175
  dataset_size: 45957987986
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
task_categories:
- text-generation
language:
- fa
pretty_name: 'HmBlogs: A big general Persian corpus'
size_categories:
- 10M<n<100M
---

# HmBlogs: A big general Persian corpus
HmBlogs is a general Persian corpus collected from nearly 20 million blog posts over a period of 15 years containig 6.8 billion tokens. 
This version is the **preprocessed version** of the dataset prepared by the original authors and converted to proper format to integrate with 🤗Datasets. 
In order to access the raw versions visit the official link at http://nlplab.sbu.ac.ir/hmBlogs-v3 .

**Paper:** https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.02362 <br>
**Authors:** Hamzeh Motahari Khansari, Mehrnoush Shamsfard <br>
**Original Link:** http://nlplab.sbu.ac.ir/hmBlogs-v3/<br>

## Usage
This dataset can be used for masked/causal language modeling. You can easily load this dataset like below:

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

# Load the whole dataset
dataset = load_dataset("sbunlp/hmblogs-v3", split="train")

# Load a portion by %
dataset = load_dataset("sbunlp/hmblogs-v3", split="train[:50%]")

# Load a custom shard
dataset = load_dataset("sbunlp/hmblogs-v3", data_files=["data/train-00000-of-00046.parquet", "data/train-00001-of-00046.parquet"])
```

# Citation
```cite
@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2111-02362,
  author       = {Hamzeh Motahari Khansari and
                  Mehrnoush Shamsfard},
  title        = {HmBlogs: {A} big general Persian corpus},
  journal      = {CoRR},
  volume       = {abs/2111.02362},
  year         = {2021},
  url          = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.02362},
  eprinttype    = {arXiv},
  eprint       = {2111.02362},
  timestamp    = {Fri, 05 Nov 2021 15:25:54 +0100},
  biburl       = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/corr/abs-2111-02362.bib},
  bibsource    = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}
```