Datasets:

mehmettozlu
/

clean-tr-dataset

language:
  - tr
size_categories:
  - 100K<n<1M
task_categories:
  - text-generation
  - text-classification
tags:
  - turkish
  - clean
  - pretraining
  - RAG
  - corpus
dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: text
      dtype: string
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_bytes: 966149952
      num_examples: 540735
  download_size: 530759757
  dataset_size: 966149952
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/train-*

Turkish Clean Text Corpus

Dataset Description

This dataset is a highly cleaned, deduplicated, and normalized corpus of Turkish text. It features a diverse collection of informative, encyclopedic, and journalistic content.

The dataset is primarily designed for Continued Pre-Training (CPT) of Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance their Turkish language capabilities and domain knowledge. It is also an excellent foundational corpus for generating synthetic Instruction/ChatML datasets or building large-scale Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems.

Language: Turkish (tr)
Total Rows: 540,735
Average Word Count per Row: ~213 words
Format: Hugging Face Dataset (Arrow/Parquet)

Usage

You can easily download and use this dataset in your Python projects using the Hugging Face datasets library.

First, ensure you have the required library installed:

pip install datasets

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load the dataset
dataset = load_dataset("mehmettozlu/clean-tr-dataset", split="train")

# Check the total number of rows
print(f"Total rows: {len(dataset)}")

# Print the first text example
print(dataset[0]["text"])

# Optional: Convert to Pandas DataFrame for easy manipulation
df = dataset.to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Dataset Structure

The dataset contains a single feature:

text (string): The cleaned, deduplicated Turkish text.

Example

{
  "text": "Ophrys apifera, Salepgiller ailesine bağlı, arı salebi olarak bilinen, bir orkide türüdür.\n\nBilimsel Tanımı\nOphrys apifera 20 ila 70 cm boylanabilen bir türdür. Gövde yapraksıdır. Çiçek kurulu 3 ila 8 arası çiçek barındırır. Çanak yapraklar iri, menekşe, gül ya da beyazımsı renklidir ve ortada yeşil bir damar görülür. Taç yapraklar yeşilimsi ya da morumsudur. Mayıs ve Haziran aylarında çayırlar..."
}