---
language:
- en
tags:
- medieval
- latin
- text-classification
pretty_name: Abalone
size_categories:
- 100<n<1K
task_categories:  # Full list at https://github.com/huggingface/hub-docs/blob/main/js/src/lib/interfaces/Types.ts
- text-classification
---
# Abalone
The [Medieval Latin](https://openportal.isti.cnr.it/doc?id=people______::37b90c87470ef85c78e72b8a3c753293) authorship attribution dataset.
Which Victorian author wrote the given text?

Note: Only epistolas are included in this version of the dataset.

# Configurations and tasks
| **Configuration** | **Task**                  | Description                                                   |
|-------------------|---------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------|
| authorship        | Classification                | Which Latin author wrote the given text?|

# Usage
```python
from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("mstz/medieval_latin", "authorship")["train"]
```

# Features
|**Feature**        |**Type**       |
|-------------------|---------------|
| content               | `[string]`    |
| epistola               | `[string]`    |
| author               | `[string]`    |

# Citation
Cite this dataset as
```
@techreport{oai:it.cnr:prodotti:438795,
	title = {MedLatin1 and MedLatin2: Two Datasets for the Computational Authorship Analysis of Medieval Latin Texts},
	author = {Corbara S. and Moreo A. and Sebastiani F. and Tavoni M.},
	institution = {Research report, 2020},
	year = {2020}
}
```