Datasets:
license: mit
language:
- en
tags:
- history
- philosophy
- art
pretty_name: Historical Quotes - English
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
task_categories:
- text-classification
- conversational
- fill-mask
Dataset Card for English Historical Quotes
I-Dataset Summary
english_historical_quotes is a dataset of many historical quotes. This dataset can be used for multi-label text classification and text generation. The content of each quote is in English.
II-Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
Multi-label text classification : The dataset can be used to train a model for text-classification, which consists of classifying quotes by author as well as by topic (using tags). Success on this task is typically measured by achieving a high or low accuracy.
Text-generation : The dataset can be used to train a model to generate quotes by fine-tuning an existing pretrained model on the corpus composed of all quotes (or quotes by author).
III-Languages
The texts in the dataset are in English (en).
IV-Dataset Structure
Data Instances
A JSON-formatted example of a typical instance in the dataset:
{"quote":"Almost anyone can be an author the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.", "author":"A. A. Milne", "categories": "['business', 'money']" }
Data Fields
author : The author of the quote.
quote : The text of the quote.
tags: The tags could be characterized as topics around the quote.
Data Splits
The dataset is one block, so that it can be further processed using Hugging Face datasets functions like the ``.train_test_split() method.
V-Dataset Creation
Curation Rationale
The goal is to share good datasets with the HuggingFace community so that they can use them in NLP tasks and advance artificial intelligence.
Source Data
The data has been aggregated from various open-access internet archives. Then it has been manually refined, duplicates and false quotes removed by me.
It is the backbone of my website dixit.app, which allows to search historical quotes through semantic search.
VI-Additional Informations
Dataset Curators
Aymeric Roucher
Licensing Information This work is licensed under a MIT License.