A dataset of Belarusian expressions collected from open Internet sources.
The latest version of the dataset is in .csv format is here.
The dataset was put together for Notion to receive a random quote every day.
Notion template:
The data was collected from:
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Web pages:
1.1. a selection of quotes from Radio Svaboda
1.2. selection from the National library website
1.3. quotes from the website dumki.org -
pdf books:
2.1. Belarusian folk art. Proverbs and sayings. In two parts
2.2. Ales Zaika. Proverbs and sayings from Kosovchyna
I wanted to start somewhere. I found a certain number of quotes on websites. But it seemed insufficient, so I decided to look at the books again. I chose the first ones that fit the content. Getting something out of books is quite difficult, so for now I have limited myself to these two. The complexities of parsing and reading from pdf can be seen in this notebook.
There are currently 9655 entries in the dataset.
the content of the dataset by source:
categories within sources:
