muhtasham/tajik-corpus

After I realised problems with Automatic language identification (LangID), and bad quality of web-crawled text corpora for my Language. I curated my own dataset. Essentially I downloaded multiple versions of the Tajik subset of Leipzig Corpora Collection, which is comprised of texts from diverse sources like news, literature, and Wikipedia.

I had to do some rigorous preprocessing by hard-coding heuristics and regexes and perform the steps below iteratively:

• deduplicating
• removing curse words
• any political bias
• any English character present
• removing words which don't exist in Tajik
• several hundred of non-tajik sentences