README.md

---
language: tg
license: cc-by-sa-3.0
tags:
- nlp
- tajik
- wikipedia
- language-modeling
---

# Tajik Wikipedia Corpus

This dataset contains **128,985** cleaned articles from the Tajik edition of Wikipedia.

The corpus was created based on articles from the Tajik Wikipedia. All articles were extracted and cleaned to remove wiki markup, hyperlinks, templates, and unnecessary elements to make it suitable for natural language processing (NLP) tasks.

## Dataset Summary

- **Language**: Tajik (tg)
- **Number of articles**: 128,985
- **Format**: JSON Lines (`.jsonl`)
- **Fields**:
  - `title`: The title of the Wikipedia article
  - `text`: The cleaned plain text content of the article

## Example Record

```json
{
  "title": "Эргашбой Муҳаммадиев",
  "text": "Эргашбой Мирзоевич Муҳамадиев  — риёзидони бузурги тоҷик, доктори илмҳои физика ва математика, профессор. Узви Ҷамъияти математикии ИМА,...."
}
```

## Usage

You can load the dataset using the `datasets` library:

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("ArabovMK/tajik-wikipedia-corpus")
print(dataset['train'][:5])
```

## License

This dataset is released under the **Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0** license (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Source: [Tajik Wikipedia](https://tg.wikipedia.org)

## Citation

If you use this dataset in your research or project, please cite it as:

```
@misc{tajik_wikipedia_corpus,
  author = "ArabovMK",
  title = "Tajik Wikipedia Corpus",
  year = 2025,
  howpublished = "\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/ArabovMK/tajik-wikipedia-corpus}"
}
```