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  ### Dataset Summary
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  This dataset is a filtered version of the corpus (35.6 M tokens) first published as BLARK - Basic Language Resource Kit for Faroese.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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  ### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
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  ### Dataset Summary
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  This dataset is a filtered version of the corpus (35.6 M tokens) first published as BLARK - Basic Language Resource Kit for Faroese.
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+ The pre-processing and filtering steps include:
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+ - Normalize format to utf-8
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+ - Remove shorter sentences (less than 10 units, where units are separated by spaces)
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+ - Remove ancient Faroese
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+ - Remove separators ('\r', '\t', '\n')
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+ - Remove non standard formatting. Examples: '§§', ' | ', '**', ' • ', ' • ', '.- ', ': ?', '.?', '\xa0', '\xad', '_ _', '. .', etc.
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+ - Remove (most) numbered lists, of formats: 1), 1:, Stk. 1 etc.
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+ - Replace arbitrary number of question/exclamation marks and full-stops with 1. Example: !!!!!! -> !
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+ - Remove websites that start with http
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+ - Remove sentences without (or with little) linguistic content. In practice: all sentences where more than half of the characters (excluding spaces) are number, punctuations and letters in caps-lock (acronyms and initials)
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+ - Remove duplicates
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+ - Set everything lower case
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  ### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
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