alakxender/dhivehi-speeches

Dhivehi Speeches Dataset

This dataset contains speeches and articles scraped from the official website of the President's Office of the Maldives (https://presidency.gov.mv/). It is intended for research and language modeling purposes, especially for the Dhivehi language.

Dataset Structure

The dataset is provided as a single Parquet file: dhivehi_speeches.parquet.

Each row contains:

• topic: The title or main topic of the speech/article.
• speaker: The name of the speaker (e.g., President, Vice President, etc.).
• content: The full text of the speech or article.

Collection Method

• Articles were crawled from the paginated press section of the President's Office website.
• Only unique articles are included; previously crawled articles are skipped on reruns.
• The crawler is polite, with delays and user-agent spoofing to avoid overloading the source website.

Usage Example

You can load this dataset directly with the Hugging Face Datasets library:

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset('alakxender/dhivehi-speeches')
print(ds['train'][0])

License & Attribution

• The original content belongs to the President's Office of the Maldives.
• This dataset is provided for research and educational purposes only.
• Please cite the source if you use this data in your work.