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language:
- ms
- en
- zh
- ta
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## Dataset Introduction

This dataset is a collection of malaysian texts in the Malay, English, Chinese, and Tamil languages, gathered by Malaysia AI volunteers through web crawling of malaysian websites. 
The dataset amounts to approximately 250 GB of text data, and has undergone deduplication process.

## Project Link

To learn more about the ongoing project and updates related to this dataset, visit the project board on GitHub:

https://github.com/users/huseinzol05/projects/1/views/1

## Github Repo

Our data preprocessing, and deduplication processes are transparent and open for review. 

You can find the code and documentation related to these processes in https://github.com/malaysia-ai/text-dataset-dedup

## Data Format

All the dataset is standardized in JSONL (JSON Lines) format, with each line containing a text snippet.