Poem Comprehensive Dataset (PCD)

Arabic PCD (APCD)

Description

The Arabic dataset is scraped mainly from الموسوعة الشعرية and الديوان. After merging both, the total number of verses is 1,831,770 poetic verses. Each verse is labeled by its meter, the poet who wrote it, and the age which it was written in. There are 22 meters, 3701 poets and 11 ages: Pre-Islamic, Islamic, Umayyad, Mamluk, Abbasid, Ayyubid, Ottoman, Andalusian, era between Umayyad and Abbasid, Fatimid, and finally the modern age. We are only interested in the 16 classic meters which are attributed to Al-Farahidi, and they comprise the majority of the dataset with a total number around 1.7M verses. It is important to note that the verses diacritic states are not consistent. This means that a verse can carry full, semi diacritics, or it can carry nothing.

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English PCD (EPCD)

Description

The English dataset is scraped from many different web resources. It consists of 199,002 verses, each of them is labeled with one of these four meters: Iambic, Trochee, Dactyl and Anapaestic. The Iambic class dominates the dataset; they are 186,809 Iambic verses, 5418 Trochee verses, 5378 Anapaestic verses, 1397 Dactyl verses.

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Ciation of this site

When you use PCD or any of its datasets, please cite it as:

 @MISC{PCD2018,
       author = {Waleed A. Yousef and Omar M. Ibrahime and Taha M. Madbouly and Moustafa A. Mahmoud and Ali H. El-Kassas and Ali O. Hassan and Abdallah R. Albohy},
       year   = 2018,
       month  = July,
       title  = {Poem Comprehensive Dataset (PCD)},
       url    = {https://hci-lab.github.io/ArabicPoetry-1-Private/#PCD}}