kamal-018/Maithili_Poems

Maithili Poetry Dataset

Dataset Summary

This dataset is a curated corpus of Maithili poetry collected from multiple online repositories and digitized literary sources. It is normalized and structured for language modeling, tokenization experiments, and generative poetry tasks in Maithili.

Dataset Statistics

Metric	Value
Language	Maithili (mai)
File Size	~1.97 MB (Uncompressed)
Token Count	~0.45 Million
Word Count	~288,500
Line Count	28,569
Stanzas / Structures	~1,355
Normalization	Unicode NFKC

Data Sources

1. Kavitakosh.org: Web-scraped individual poem texts via automated script extraction.
2. Mithila Dharohar Blog: Extracted via Atom feed, HTML tags stripped, and plain text filtered.
3. Digitized Poem Book: Local text collection cleaned and consolidated.

Preprocessing & Pipeline

1. Extraction & HTML Stripping: Cleaned blog/web artifacts, tags, and page metadata.
2. Character Filtering: Removed non-Maithili noise, including English characters, numeric digits, and non-poetic punctuation marks.
3. Unicode Normalization: Standardized all Devanagari characters using NFKC normalization.
4. Structural Refinement:
   • Preserved poetic structure by re-evaluating stanza boundaries.
   • Merged artificially split short stanzas.
   • Filtered isolated artifact lines between continuous stanzas.

Usage

## Citation
If you use this dataset, please cite:
\`\`\`bibtex
@dataset{maithili_corpus,
  author = {Kamal Khatri},
  title = {Maithili Poems},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/kamal-018/Maithili_Poems}
}
\`\`\`