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# ml-wiki-sentences

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Malayalam Wikipedia sentences extracted from article text, segmented into individual sentences.

## Dataset Description

This dataset contains sentence-segmented text from Malayalam (ml) Wikipedia articles. Each row represents a single sentence extracted from Wikipedia articles, with metadata linking it back to the source article.

### Data Source

- **Source**: Malayalam Wikipedia (ml.wikipedia.org)
- **Dump Date**: March 2025
- **Original Dump**: Wikimedia Enterprise HTML dumps (20250320)
- **Articles Processed**: 88,832 articles
- **Total Sentences**: 2,250,219 sentences

### Language

- **Language**: Malayalam (ml)
- **Script**: Malayalam (ml)

## Dataset Schema

| Column | Type | Description |
|--------|------|-------------|
| `id` | int64 | Wikipedia article ID |
| `url` | string | Full URL to the Wikipedia article |
| `name` | string | Article title |
| `sentence` | string | Individual sentence text |
| `sentence_index` | int32 | Position of this sentence within the article (0-based) |

## Dataset Creation

1. Downloaded enterprise HTML dumps from Wikimedia
2. Extracted article HTML and converted to Parquet format
3. Used tree-sitter-html (Rust) to extract plain text from HTML
4. Used sentencex (Rust) for sentence segmentation

Source code: https://github.com/santhoshtr/wikisentences

## Licensing

**Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)**

This dataset is derived from Wikipedia content, which is available under CC BY-SA 3.0. The source text is licensed under the same terms.

See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

## Citation

If you use this dataset in your research or projects, please cite:

```
ml-wiki-sentences Dataset (2025). Malayalam Wikipedia sentences.
Available at: https://huggingface.co/datasets/smcproject/ml-wiki-sentences
```

## Contact

For questions or issues, please open an issue on the repository.

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*Dataset automatically generated from Malayalam Wikipedia dumps.*