chuuhtetnaing/myanmar-text-segmentation-dataset

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Myanmar Text Segmentation Dataset

A token classification dataset for Myanmar (Burmese) chunk segmentation, formatted for sequence labeling tasks using the BIO tagging scheme.

📓 Dataset Creation Notebook: myanmar-text-segmentation-dataset.ipynb

📓 Fine-Tuning Notebook: myanmar-text-segmentation-fine-tuning.ipynb (based on the HuggingFace Token Classification Guide)

🚀 Try it out: Myanmar Text Segmentation Demo

Dataset Description

This dataset is designed for chunk segmentation of Myanmar text. The input tokens are syllables (for Myanmar) or characters (for English), and the labels indicate chunk boundaries using B (Beginning) / I (Inside) tags.

For example, the unsegmented text မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် is first broken into syllables ["မြန်", "မာ", "နိုင်", "ငံ", "တွင်"], then labeled as [B, I, B, I, I] to produce the segmented output မြန်မာ နိုင်ငံတွင်.

Source Data

Derived from chuuhtetnaing/myanmar-wikipedia-dataset.

Processing Pipeline

1. Paragraph extraction: Each Wikipedia article is split by newlines, preserving full paragraphs as individual rows rather than sentence-by-sentence. This design allows models to handle multi-sentence inputs without requiring line-by-line splitting at inference time.

2. Language filtering: Each paragraph is classified using Facebook's fastText language identification model. Only paragraphs identified as Myanmar (__label__mya_Mymr) are retained.

3. Tokenization: Myanmar text is tokenized into syllables using regex-based rules that handle consonants, subscripts (္), and asat (်) markers. English text is tokenized into individual characters.

4. Chunk boundary labeling: Original spacing from the Wikipedia source text is converted to B/I sequence labels, where B marks the first token of each chunk and I marks continuation tokens.

5. Deduplication: Duplicate token sequences are removed from the final dataset.

Dataset Statistics

Split	Examples
Train	544,133
Test	28,639

Data Format

{
    "tokens": ["မြန်", "မာ", "နိုင်", "ငံ", "တွင်"],  # List of tokens
    "segment_tags": [0, 1, 0, 1, 1]  # 0 = B (chunk start), 1 = I (chunk continuation)
}

Features

• tokens: Sequence[string] - Input tokens (Myanmar syllables or English characters)
• segment_tags: Sequence[ClassLabel] - Chunk boundary labels (B=0, I=1)

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("chuuhtetnaing/myanmar-text-segmentation-dataset")

ds["train"].features["segment_tags"].feature.names
# ['B', 'I']

def reconstruct(tokens, labels):
    result = []
    for token, label in zip(tokens, labels):
        if label == 0 and result:  # B tag (chunk boundary)
            result.append(" ")
        result.append(token)
    return "".join(result)

ds["test"][1018]['tokens']
# ['လျှပ်', 'စစ်', 'ငါး', 'ရှ', 'ဉ့်', '(Electrophorus)', 'သည်', 'မျိုး', 'ရင်း', 'Gymnotidae', 'ရှိ', 'ရေ', 'ချို', 'နေ', 'ငါး', 'ရှ', 'ဉ့်', 'မျိုး', 'စု', 'တ', 'ခု', 'ဖြစ်', 'သည်', '။', ...]

ds["test"][1018]['segment_tags']
# [0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, ...]

reconstruct(ds["test"][1018]['tokens'], ds["test"][1018]['segment_tags'])
# 'လျှပ်စစ်ငါးရှဉ့် (Electrophorus) သည် မျိုးရင်း Gymnotidae ရှိ ရေချိုနေ ငါးရှဉ့် မျိုးစုတခုဖြစ်သည်။ ...'

Intended Use

• Training chunk segmentation models for Myanmar NLP
• Token classification / sequence labeling experiments (HuggingFace Token Classification Training Example).
• Myanmar language processing research