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| license: apache-2.0 |
| task_categories: |
| - text-generation |
| language: |
| - mg |
| size_categories: |
| - 10K<n<100K |
| --- |
| # Collection Tononkalo Malagasy |
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| ## Dataset Description |
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| This dataset is a collection of Malagasy poems (*Tononkalo*) scraped from [Vetso Serasera](https://vetso.serasera.org/vetso). It focuses on creative writing, rhymes, and artistic expression in the Malagasy language. |
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| **Important Note:** This dataset has been rigorously filtered. |
| 1. **Language Filtering:** Poems written primarily in French or English have been removed to ensure a high-quality Malagasy corpus. |
| 2. **Cleaning:** Metadata, dates, author signatures inside the text, and website headers/footers have been stripped to leave only the raw poetic content. |
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| - **Curated by:** Lo-Renz-O |
| - **Language:** Malagasy (mg) |
| - **Source:** Vetso Serasera |
| - **License:** User-generated content (Rights belong to original authors). Used for research/educational purposes. |
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| ## Dataset Structure |
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| The dataset is formatted in JSONL. |
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| ### Data Fields |
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| - `url` (string): The URL where the poem was found. |
| - `title` (string): The title of the poem. |
| - `author` (string): The name of the poet. |
| - `content` (string): The body of the poem, preserving line breaks (`\n`) for structure. |
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| ## Use Cases |
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| This dataset captures the **creative, emotional, and metaphorical** aspects of the Malagasy language. It contains vocabulary and sentence structures rarely found in formal news or wikipedia data. |
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| * **Creative Text Generation:** Training LLMs to write poetry, song lyrics, or creative prose in Malagasy, adhering to rhyme schemes and rhythmic patterns. |
| * **Vocabulary Expansion:** Poetry often utilizes deep Malagasy vocabulary (*teny gasy lalina*), metaphors, and proverbs (*ohabolana*), helping models understand context beyond literal meanings. |
| * **Cultural Preservation:** Preserving the digital heritage of Malagasy contemporary and traditional poetry for future linguistic analysis. |
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| ### Example |
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| ```json |
| { |
| "url": "https://vetso.serasera.org/tononkalo/author/title", |
| "title": "Embona", |
| "author": "Rado", |
| "content": "Raha mbola misy embona\nny lasa tsy fanary\nny fo no aoka hiteny\n..." |
| } |
| ``` |
| ### Filtering Logic |
| To ensure quality for LLM training: |
| Login Pages Removed: Redirects to login pages were filtered out. |
| Signatures Removed: Lines at the end of poems containing the author's name or dates (e.g., "12/12/2025") were programmatically removed. |
| Non-Malagasy Removed: A heuristic based on stop-words was used to exclude non-Malagasy texts. |
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| ### How to Use |
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| ```python |
| from datasets import load_dataset |
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| dataset = load_dataset("Lo-Renz-O/Collection-Tononkalo-Malagasy") |
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| # Print a poem |
| print(dataset['train'][0]['content']) |
| ``` |
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