README.md

---
annotations_creators:
- expert-generated
language:
- te
language_creators:
- expert-generated
license:
- apache-2.0
multilinguality:
- monolingual
pretty_name: Telugu Poems
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
source_datasets:
- original
tags:
- literature
- poems
task_categories:
- text-generation
task_ids:
- language-modeling
---

# Summary
`aya-telugu-poems` is an open source dataset of instruct-style records generated by webscraping a Telugu poems website. This was created as part of [Aya Open Science Initiative](https://sites.google.com/cohere.com/aya-en/home) from Cohere For AI.

This dataset can be used for any purpose, whether academic or commercial, under the terms of the [Apache 2.0](https://opensource.org/license/apache-2-0) License.

Supported Tasks:
- Training LLMs
- Synthetic Data Generation
- Data Augmentation

Languages: Telugu Version: 1.0

# Dataset Overview
`aya-telugu-poems` is a corpus of more than 5k records generated by webscraping of the Telugu poetry website. This Dataset can be used for the following two tasks:
- Given the poem and type of poetry, explain the meaning of the poem.
- Given the meaning and the type of poetry, generate the corresponding poem.
- Given the partial poem and type of poetry, generate the rest of the poem.

# Intended Uses
While immediately valuable for instruction fine tuning large language models, as a corpus of instruction prompts, this dataset also presents a valuable opportunity for synthetic data generation in the methods. For example, prompt-completions could be submitted as few-shot examples to a large open language model to generate additional poems and their explanations.

# Dataset

## Load with Datasets
To load this dataset with Datasets, you'll just need to install Datasets as `pip install datasets --upgrade` and then use the following code:

```python
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset('SuryaKrishna02/aya-telugu-poems')
```

## Purpose of Collection
Telugu is a low-resource language where there are no poetry instruct-style dataset to the best of my knowledge. This was created as a part of [Aya Open Science Initiative](https://sites.google.com/cohere.com/aya-en/home) from Cohere For AI to make sure Telugu is well represented in the space of AI/ML. Unlike other datasets that are limited to non-commercial use, this dataset can be used, modified, and extended for any purpose, including academic or commercial applications.

## Sources
- **Telugu Padyaluu Website**: Performed webscraping from [Telugu Padyaluu Website](https://telugu-padyaalu1.blogspot.com/) which consists of following 11 different types of poetry.
  1. వేమన శతకం
  2. శ్రీ కాళహస్తీశ్వర శతకం
  3. భాస్కర శతకం
  4. దాశరథి శతకం
  5. కృష్ణ శతకం
  6. సుమతీ శతకం
  7. భర్తృహరి సుభాషితాలు
  8. కుమార శతకం
  9. నరసింహ శతకం
  10. కుమారీ శతకం
  11. పోతన పద్యాలు 
- Next, performed some pre-processing of the data like removing unwanted characters and similar poems by calculating the similarity score from the scraped data.
- Finally, converted the scraped data into Instruct-style prompts and completions.

## Templates
For the creation of instruct-style prompts and completions from the scraped data, the following three templates were used:
1. Given the poem and type of poetry, explain the meaning of the poem.
```python
Prompt:
క్రింద ఇచ్చిన {{poetry_type}} లోని పద్యానికి ("తాత్పర్యం" / "భావం" / "భావము" / "తాత్పర్యము" / "అర్ధం" / "అర్ధము") ఇవ్వండి:
{{Poem}}

Completion:
ఇచ్చిన {{poetry_type}}లోని పద్యానికి ("తాత్పర్యం" / "భావం" / "భావము" / "తాత్పర్యము" / "అర్ధం" / "అర్ధము"):
{{Meaning}}
```
2. Given the meaning and the type of poetry, generate the corresponding poem.
```python
Prompt:
క్రింద ఇచ్చిన ("తాత్పర్యం" / "భావం" / "భావము" / "తాత్పర్యము" / "అర్ధం" / "అర్ధము") వచ్చే లాగా {{poetry_type}} శైలిలో పద్యం రాయండి:
{{Meaning}}

Completion:
ఇచ్చిన ("తాత్పర్యం" / "భావం" / "భావము" / "తాత్పర్యము" / "అర్ధం" / "అర్ధము") వచ్చే {{poetry_type}} శైలి పద్యం:
{{Poem}}
```
3. Given the partial poem and type of poetry, generate the rest of the poem.
```python
Prompt:
క్రింద ఇచ్చిన ("తాత్పర్యం" / "భావం" / "భావము" / "తాత్పర్యము" / "అర్ధం" / "అర్ధము") అనుసరించి అసంపూర్ణమైయిన పద్యాన్ని {{poetry_type}} శైలిలో పూర్తిచేసి రాయండి:
("తాత్పర్యం" / "భావం" / "భావము" / "తాత్పర్యము" / "అర్ధం" / "అర్ధము"):
{{Meaning}}

అసంపూర్ణమైయిన పద్యం:
{{Partial Poem}}

Completion:
పూర్తిచేయబడ్డ పద్యం క్రింద ఇవ్వబడింది:
పద్యం:
{{Poem}}
```

## Personal or Sensitive Data
This dataset contains public information. To our knowledge, there are no private person’s personal identifiers or sensitive information.

## Language
Telugu

# Known Limitations
- The Dataset is scraped from the poetry website and the contents of this dataset may reflect the bias, factual errors and sensitive matters.
- Although there is utmost care taken to keep the dataset as monolingual, there might be some records that may contain English Language along with Telugu.

# Contributors
[SuryaKrishna02](https://github.com/SuryaKrishna02) and [Desik98](https://github.com/desik1998)