""" Build a multi-class Arabic dialect + MSA classification set. Source: oddadmix/dialectal-arabic-text-no-audio-v2 (552,421 YouTube transcript rows, 15 labels), plus MSA articles from oddadmix/msa_texts_summaries_new chunked to transcript length. Four decisions the raw data forces: * `en` is dropped. Its 12,998 rows are English literary prose - 100% Latin, 0% Arabic. It is not an Arabic dialect, it is separable by script alone, and keeping it would inflate accuracy. * `ar` is renamed `msa`. Those 9,898 rows already *are* MSA (instructional and religious prose), so MSA was never missing from this dataset, only under-represented at 1.8%. * Diacritics are stripped. Their rate runs 30% (ar) to 88% (lb) and tracks the transcription source, which maps to dialect - a model can read the diacritic density instead of the dialect. Real-world Arabic is undiacritized anyway. * MSA chunks are split by *article*, so no two chunks of one article straddle train and test. Known confound, not fully fixable here: the dialect rows are speech transcripts while the added MSA is written prose. A classifier can exploit register rather than dialect. Chunking MSA to the dialect length distribution and stripping diacritics narrows the gap; the honest check is the `ar`-only MSA slice, which IS from a different source than the added chunks - reported separately. """ import json import os import random import re import unicodedata from collections import Counter, defaultdict from pathlib import Path import pyarrow.parquet as pq from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download OUT = Path(os.environ.get("OUT_DIR", "data")); OUT.mkdir(exist_ok=True) SEED = 42 MSA_TARGET = int(os.environ.get("MSA_TARGET", 50000)) CHUNK_LO, CHUNK_HI = 18, 70 # dialect words: p10 16, p50 39, p90 71 DIACRITICS = re.compile(r"[ً-ْٰـ]") # tashkeel + tatweel def normalise(s: str) -> str: s = unicodedata.normalize("NFKC", s or "") # folds Arabic Presentation Forms to standard s = DIACRITICS.sub("", s) return re.sub(r"\s+", " ", s).strip() def load_dialects(): rows = {} for split, fn in (("train", "data/train-00000-of-00001.parquet"), ("test", "data/test-00000-of-00001.parquet")): t = pq.read_table(hf_hub_download("oddadmix/dialectal-arabic-text-no-audio-v2", fn, repo_type="dataset")) out = [] for txt, lang in zip(t.column("transcript_text").to_pylist(), t.column("language").to_pylist()): if lang == "en": # English prose, not a dialect continue lab = "msa" if lang == "ar" else lang n = normalise(txt) if len(n.split()) < 5: continue out.append({"text": n, "label": lab, "source": "transcript"}) rows[split] = out return rows def chunk(text, rng): w = normalise(text).split() out, i = [], 0 while i < len(w): k = rng.randint(CHUNK_LO, CHUNK_HI) piece = w[i:i + k] if len(piece) >= CHUNK_LO: out.append(" ".join(piece)) i += k return out def load_msa(n_train, n_test): t = pq.read_table(hf_hub_download("oddadmix/msa_texts_summaries_new", "data/train-00000-of-00001-3efb20f362aadfd6.parquet", repo_type="dataset")) arts = [x or "" for x in t.column("text").to_pylist()] rng = random.Random(SEED) idx = list(range(len(arts))); rng.shuffle(idx) cut = int(len(idx) * 0.05) test_arts, train_arts = idx[:cut], idx[cut:] # split by article, never by chunk def take(article_ids, want): out = [] for a in article_ids: for c in chunk(arts[a], rng): out.append({"text": c, "label": "msa", "source": "article"}) if len(out) >= want: return out return out return take(train_arts, n_train), take(test_arts, n_test) def main(): rng = random.Random(SEED) d = load_dialects() have_msa = sum(1 for r in d["train"] if r["label"] == "msa") need = max(0, MSA_TARGET - have_msa) msa_tr, msa_te = load_msa(need, 400) train = d["train"] + msa_tr test = d["test"] + msa_te rng.shuffle(train) # De-duplicate within and across splits, on normalised text. seen, tr2 = set(), [] for r in train: if r["text"] in seen: continue seen.add(r["text"]); tr2.append(r) te2 = [r for r in test if r["text"] not in seen] dropped_test = len(test) - len(te2) labels = sorted({r["label"] for r in tr2}) lab2id = {l: i for i, l in enumerate(labels)} for r in tr2 + te2: r["label_id"] = lab2id[r["label"]] for name, rows in (("train", tr2), ("test", te2)): with open(OUT / f"{name}.jsonl", "w", encoding="utf-8") as fh: for r in rows: fh.write(json.dumps(r, ensure_ascii=False) + "\n") json.dump({"labels": labels, "label2id": lab2id}, open(OUT / "labels.json", "w", encoding="utf-8"), ensure_ascii=False, indent=1) print(f"dropped en; ar -> msa; MSA topped up by {len(msa_tr):,} article chunks") print(f"train {len(tr2):,} test {len(te2):,} ({dropped_test} test rows dropped as dupes)") print(f"labels ({len(labels)}): {labels}") c = Counter(r["label"] for r in tr2) for l, v in c.most_common(): print(f" {l:<5}{v:>8,} {v/len(tr2):6.1%}") ct = Counter(r["label"] for r in te2) print("test:", dict(ct.most_common())) print("msa by source (train):", dict(Counter(r['source'] for r in tr2 if r['label']=='msa'))) print("msa by source (test):", dict(Counter(r['source'] for r in te2 if r['label']=='msa'))) if __name__ == "__main__": main()