Dataset Card for Gutenberg Poem Dataset

Dataset Summary

Poem Sentiment is a sentiment dataset of poem verses from Project Gutenberg. This dataset can be used for tasks such as sentiment classification or style transfer for poems.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

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Languages

The text in the dataset is in English ( en ).

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

Example of one instance in the dataset.

{'id': 0, 'label': 2, 'verse_text': 'with pale blue berries. in these peaceful shades--'}

Data Fields

• id : index of the example
• verse_text : The text of the poem verse
• label : The sentiment label. Here
  • 0 = negative
  • 1 = positive
  • 2 = no impact
  • 3 = mixed (both negative and positive)

    Note: The original dataset uses different label indices (negative = -1, no impact = 0, positive = 1)

Data Splits

The dataset is split into a train , validation , and test split with the following sizes:

train	validation	test
Number of examples	892	105	104

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Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

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Source Data

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Initial Data Collection and Normalization

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Who are the source language producers?

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Annotations

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Annotation process

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Who are the annotators?

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Personal and Sensitive Information

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Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

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Discussion of Biases

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Other Known Limitations

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Additional Information

Dataset Curators

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Licensing Information

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Citation Information

@misc{sheng2020investigating,
      title={Investigating Societal Biases in a Poetry Composition System},
      author={Emily Sheng and David Uthus},
      year={2020},
      eprint={2011.02686},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}

Contributions

Thanks to @patil-suraj for adding this dataset.