Datasets:
bookcorpus

	---
	annotations_creators:
	- no-annotation
	language_creators:
	- found
	language:
	- en
	license:
	- unknown
	multilinguality:
	- monolingual
	pretty_name: BookCorpus
	size_categories:
	- 10M<n<100M
	source_datasets:
	- original
	task_categories:
	- text-generation
	- fill-mask
	task_ids:
	- language-modeling
	- masked-language-modeling
	paperswithcode_id: bookcorpus
	dataset_info:
	features:
	- name: text
	dtype: string
	config_name: plain_text
	splits:
	- name: train
	num_bytes: 4853859824
	num_examples: 74004228
	download_size: 1179510242
	dataset_size: 4853859824
	---

	# Dataset Card for BookCorpus

	## Table of Contents
	- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
	- [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
	- [Supported Tasks and Leaderboards](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
	- [Languages](#languages)
	- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
	- [Data Instances](#data-instances)
	- [Data Fields](#data-fields)
	- [Data Splits](#data-splits)
	- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)
	- [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale)
	- [Source Data](#source-data)
	- [Annotations](#annotations)
	- [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information)
	- [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data)
	- [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset)
	- [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases)
	- [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations)
	- [Additional Information](#additional-information)
	- [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators)
	- [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)
	- [Citation Information](#citation-information)
	- [Contributions](#contributions)

	## Dataset Description

	- Homepage: [https://yknzhu.wixsite.com/mbweb](https://yknzhu.wixsite.com/mbweb)
	- Repository: [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
	- Paper: [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
	- Point of Contact: [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
	- Size of downloaded dataset files: 1.18 GB
	- Size of the generated dataset: 4.85 GB
	- Total amount of disk used: 6.03 GB

	### Dataset Summary

	Books are a rich source of both fine-grained information, how a character, an object or a scene looks like, as well as high-level semantics, what someone is thinking, feeling and how these states evolve through a story.This work aims to align books to their movie releases in order to providerich descriptive explanations for visual content that go semantically farbeyond the captions available in current datasets.

	### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

	[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

	### Languages

	[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

	## Dataset Structure

	### Data Instances

	#### plain_text

	- Size of downloaded dataset files: 1.18 GB
	- Size of the generated dataset: 4.85 GB
	- Total amount of disk used: 6.03 GB

	An example of 'train' looks as follows.
	```
	{
	"text": "But I traded all my life for some lovin' and some gold"
	}
	```

	### Data Fields

	The data fields are the same among all splits.

	#### plain_text
	- `text`: a `string` feature.

	### Data Splits

	\| name \| train \|
	\|----------\|-------:\|
	\|plain_text\|74004228\|

	## Dataset Creation

	### Curation Rationale

	[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

	### Source Data

	#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

	[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

	#### Who are the source language producers?

	[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

	### Annotations

	#### Annotation process

	[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

	#### Who are the annotators?

	[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

	### Personal and Sensitive Information

	[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

	## Considerations for Using the Data

	### Social Impact of Dataset

	[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

	### Discussion of Biases

	[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

	### Other Known Limitations

	[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

	## Additional Information

	### Dataset Curators

	[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

	### Licensing Information

	The books have been crawled from https://www.smashwords.com, see their [terms of service](https://www.smashwords.com/about/tos) for more information.

	A data sheet for this dataset has also been created and published in [Addressing "Documentation Debt" in Machine Learning Research: A Retrospective Datasheet for BookCorpus](https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.05241).

	### Citation Information

	```
	@InProceedings{Zhu_2015_ICCV,
	title = {Aligning Books and Movies: Towards Story-Like Visual Explanations by Watching Movies and Reading Books},
	author = {Zhu, Yukun and Kiros, Ryan and Zemel, Rich and Salakhutdinov, Ruslan and Urtasun, Raquel and Torralba, Antonio and Fidler, Sanja},
	booktitle = {The IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
	month = {December},
	year = {2015}
	}
	```

	### Contributions

	Thanks to [@lewtun](https://github.com/lewtun), [@richarddwang](https://github.com/richarddwang), [@lhoestq](https://github.com/lhoestq), [@thomwolf](https://github.com/thomwolf) for adding this dataset.