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"Hang it all," grumbled Hartley, "my luck seems to have deserted me. This comes of having a special liking for a woman. I first narrowly escaped a broken neck, then drowning, and now Beauty must cast a shoe; and yet somehow I feel as though I could chance a lot of bad luck for the sake of Dorna Stoneham. I can't think ... | [
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"I'll tell you what's in my mind, Dr. Wells," said Bourke quietly. "It's in my mind that you're taking the news I've brought you in quite the wrong way. You're a friend of Mr. Clifton's--I'll call him Peter because I have the honour to be a friend of his too. And you haven't reacted--is that the medical term? a useful ... | [
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Hood was one of those men whom books almost literally seize and swallow, like monsters with leather or paper jaws. It was no exaggeration to say he was deep in a book as an incautious traveller might be deep in a swamp or some strange man-eating plant of the tropics; only that the traveller was magnetized and did not ... | [
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Accustomed as I was to Thorndyke's methods, his procedure was not unexpected, but Mr. Byramji watched him with breathless interest and no little surprise as, laying a sheet of notepaper on the table, he brought the hat close to it and brushed firmly but slowly, so that the dust dislodged should fall on it. As it was no... | [
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('Why,' thought Sally to herself, 'he's just like a piece of seaweed, yellow, and if you pressed any part of him with your finger it would go "pop".' At the same time she wanted to take him and smooth his hair, calm his fears, give him a present, offer him a drink, lie down on the outside of the bed with him, draw his... | [
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He had thrown off the sacks and spread out his limbs. As he lay on his back, flung out on the hay, he looked big again, and manly. His mouth had relaxed, and taken its old, easy lines. One felt for him now the warmth one feels for anyone who sleeps in an attitude of abandon. She leaned over him, and looked at him with ... | [
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Ostensibly the Cordilleran Inter-continental Wall was constructed by the United States. A good many of the more chauvinistic newspapers bewailed the appearance of Uncle Sam as a sucker again, paying for the five hundred million dollar project for the benefit of Europe. No one noticed that there was no Congressional app... | [
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You, reader, who have known what it is to ride hard all night in an Australian mountain tempest, will appreciate the delight with which I hailed the glorious outburst of a sunny morning. I could not but think my vision of the night a dream, born of my own thoughts and the mysterious influence of the moonlit forest; and... | [
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She almost snatched it out of his hand. If she let the precious minutes slip away, there might be another beating in store for her at the drain: her father was not of an indulgent disposition when his children were late in bringing his beer. On the point of hurrying away, without a word of farewell, she remembered the ... | [
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The operation of earthing up serves four purposes: (1) the succession of new roots, arising from the lower nodes, thoroughly combs the highly aerated and fertile soil of the ridges; (2) the conditions suitable for the development of the mycorrhizal association are provided; (3) the standing power of the canes during th... | [
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"I really am sorry to bother you," wrote Sanders to the Administrator again, "but I shall have to borrow your Houssas for the Isisi country. There has been a tribute palaver, and Peter went down to Ikan and wiped up his uncle; he filled in his spare time by giving the Akasava the worst licking they have ever had. I tho... | [
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"It was not for that reason that I excluded her from suspicion," replied Merrington drily. "The points against her were really very damaging. She was out of the dining-room when the scream was heard, and when the others rushed out of the dining-room on hearing the shot, the first thing they saw was Miss Heredith descen... | [
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Sunday, was too many for me. I did not go out at all but sat It home and read Aladdin and looked at the streaming rain. Monday was a little better. Charlotte and I put on short skirts and thick boots and went for a long walk to a lovely spring she knew of. We walked down a deep valley which s long as we have known it h... | [
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January 4, 1898. Christmas in Melbourne, New Year's Day in Adelaide, and saw most of the friends again in both places . . . . Lying here at anchor all day--Albany (King George's Sound), Western Australia. It is a perfectly landlocked harbor, or roadstead--spacious to look at, but not deep water. Desolate-lookin... | [
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He was a long way off, but she could see him quite clearly. He was a boy, older than Abe, but about the same size--a somewhat forlorn figure, who seemed as if he had a great way to go and was oppressed by the knowledge of it. He had funny things on his legs and feet, which were not proper moccasins. Once he looked back... | [
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Neither of us was in a hurry to go and face Mrs Baker. `We'll go after dinner,' said Andy at first; then after dinner we had a drink, and felt sleepy -- we weren't used to big dinners of roast-beef and vegetables and pudding, and, besides, it was drowsy weather -- so we decided to have a snooze and then go. When we wo... | [
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Had he gone back to his old New York world--to Rebecca Stram's studio and the cheap restaurants where the young and rebellious gathered--he might have had a different idea of the impression produced by his book. These young men, though they had enjoyed his early ardours and curiosities, had received his first novels w... | [
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For a few years after the death of the artist, Jacqueline lived in great poverty on savings which she had accumulated in her association with the merchant. She tried to make a name for herself as a writer, under a masculine pseudonym; but the stuff which she produced was too remote to be appreciated, and she could not ... | [
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Mary was there in a cosy, cedar-panelled room leading off the great hall, and breakfast was temptingly displayed. She smiled as she lifted the cover from a dish of kidneys. There was fried ham in another silver dish, the atmosphere was deliciously fragrant with coffee. Theoretically Tregarthen should have had weak tea ... | [
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"And will continue to remain," nodded the inspector decisively, "for a reasonable period of time. With some persuasion I induced Sir James to make them all agree to stay on until we have had longer to follow up our inquiries." He smiled grimly. "I practically forced them to that, for I had let them know pretty plainly ... | [
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Then he left the forest. The river widened a little and flowed north-east through rocky country that was hard to pass over, because it was so stony and rough. Here and there was a wind-beaten tree, here and there a stunted bush, and again, in sheltered corners of the stones, patches of green-stuff, moss, and small, cre... | [
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Incidentally he taught me to be familiar with high explosive. Sappers handled it like a sacrament, but Garland would shovel a handful of detonators into his pocket, with a string of primers, fuse, and fusees, and jump gaily on his camel for a week's ride to the Hejaz Railway. His health was poor and the climate made hi... | [
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Thereafter followed Clyde's story of how, having fled from the difficulties threatening him in Kansas City and having wandered here and there for two years, he had finally obtained a place in Chicago as a driver and later as a bell-boy at the Union League, and also how while still employed at the first of these places ... | [
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I never saw Brown's equanimity so disturbed as it was that day, either. The philosopher had received a charge at San Francisco--a widow, with three children and a servant girl. Every day on the trip, he had been obliged to go down among the sweltering stenches of the ship's hold, to pull and haul Mrs. B.'s trunks out f... | [
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Well, now, I have a somewhat painful memory of the early history of the Society for Psychical Research. I was, fortunately or unfortunately, a member of its first Council, as was also our dear departed friend W. Stainton Moses. We sat together and we were sadly distressed by the way in which the Council of the Society ... | [
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Lawrence nodded his wise head. "All you say is true, but I want a different kind of service from you. You may have noticed in your travels, Mr. Garvald--for they tell me you are not often out of the saddle--that up and down the land there's a good few folk that are not very easy in their minds. Many of these are former... | [
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Her travelling chariot drove up to the door, and, after a few moments' preparation, she was summoned. Again she looked round the room; her heart swelled high with impatience and repining, but again she conquered herself. She took up her miniature--that now she might possess--for she could remember without sin--she took... | [
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A separate command like this had to be entrusted to a reliable man, and Phillip, though no doubt loth to lose the close-at-hand service of King, yet felt the importance of the work, and so chose him for it. King left for the island on February 15th, 1788, in the _Supply_, taking with him James Cunningham, master's mate... | [
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"Now have Day and Night come together, and soon shall the new sun rise, the sun of our glory, for already the dawn is breaking. Take that which is in your keeping, and I will take that which is in mine, for not here must they be joined, but far away. Listen, brethren, to my tale, which shall be brief, seeing that if it... | [
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The very place, at the end of a few minutes, the commodious "handsome" room, far back in the fine old house, soundless from position, somewhat sallow with years of celebrity, somewhat sombre even at midsummer--the very place put on for her a look of custom and use, squared itself solidly round her as with promises and ... | [
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BELVOIR [moodily]. Does one need to be asked? Did you ever ask me? I love you! I can't help loving you! I want to shout it aloud from the housetops! I want to take every man by the shoulder and say to him, 'I love Muriel! Poor fellow, you don't know her!' I go about all day with your name on my lips. I am always fright... | [
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Of my first meeting with that clock I have no recollection, for it was there when my Aunt Gollidge brought me to her home, a little orphan of three. But in that curious hazy beginning of memory when the events of our childhood come back to us in detached scenes like the pictures of a magic lantern, the old clock is the... | [
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Their first Christmas dinner together was at Eisenherz's villa. It was a Grand Republic dinner and full of the double joy of loving the home town and of being able to get away from it in winter. Webb and Louise Wargate were there, just come in, and Madge Dedrick. There was apprehensive talk about the war, and the War... | [
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"They would not," said Cornelia, "for his reply would be so fraught with seeming justice, that the blame would fall back on me. He asks but the trivial sacrifice of my duty to my mother--my poor mother! who, since I was born, has lived with me and for me, and who has no existence except through me. I am to tear away, a... | [
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I suffered about two days to elapse from the period at which I had thoroughly digested my project, and then in the very middle of the night began to set about its execution. The first door was attended with considerable difficulty; but at length this obstacle was happily removed. The second door was fastened on the ins... | [
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MARCH 10, 1888.--Started out this morning with Jackson, who is the only survivor of a party of three who lost their horses on a dry stage when looking for country; he was found and cared for by the blacks, and finally made his way into the telegraph-line, where I picked him up when out with a repairing-party. Since the... | [
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In a misty dawn, beneath the shelter of a hedge crouched David, spent with weariness, for he had travelled fast and far, his mind a prey to stark horror, for reaction had come and Murder stood before him in all its appalling hideousness. In his mind he saw again that ghastly, lifeless, lolling thing leering sardonical... | [
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The afternoon had been full of rather unpleasant surprises, thought Elizabeth to herself, as she went up to Mallards that evening. They were concerned with local activities, art and gymnastics, of which she had hitherto heard nothing, and they all seemed to show a common origin: there was a hidden hand directing them. ... | [
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"I have much to tell you to-day. First of all you ought to know that I've been engaged by Angelo Neumann as first conductor at Prague from August 1 and that I shall on that day personally conduct Lohengrin for the first time in my life. In the course of the season I shall give the Ring, Tristan, Meistersinger! So you s... | [
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It was not wonderful to Mr. Ricardo that she should feel sickish. He conceived that if his mind had been less alert, he might have felt a trifle sickish himself. Upon his right hand were two french windows opening on to a green and pleasant garden with the great meadow beyond a low hedge. Although birds sang no more, r... | [
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"No, he was at Schreiner's office, Gladys. I have never seen him more alert and vigorous. Perhaps Schreiner lost his head, perhaps he allowed his anger against me to get the better of his judgment. Any way, he spoke of the forgery. I have had many anxious moments in my life, but never a more distracting one than that. ... | [
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In the meanwhile Bardi, his heart filled with vengeful hatred, was tracking his runaway wife and her lover with dogged persistence. The cost of his travels was little, as his profession was that of an organ-grinder, and with his box of music he could earn his livelihood on the road. Whither they had gone he did not lea... | [
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We rested by the bridge and refreshed ourselves, for above us was an ascent whose steepness my stuttering coolie indicated to me by fixing my walking stick in the ground, almost perpendicularly, and running his finger up the side. He did not exaggerate. A zigzag path set with stone steps has been cut in the vertical as... | [
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'I knew he wor jawing her, poor thing! By the way he kep' waggin' his head--an' he had his fist inside, a shakin' in her face I'm sure he looked wicked enough for anything; an' she a crying like a babby, an' lookin' back, an' wavin' her wet hankicher to him--poor thing!--and she so young! 'Tis a pity. Dear me! I often ... | [
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resh provisions being scarce, in February, 1823, Captain Barlow dispatched her to the islands for a cargo of buffaloes. When she left Port Cockburn her commander was warned to avoid an island called Baba, which was infested with pirates who bore the reputation of being very daring and very cruel. It is supposed that th... | [
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It was broad daylight by this time, and it was perfectly plain, both to friend and foe, that the French centre could no longer be counted upon as a fighting force. One of the circumstances which came home hardest afterwards to the survivors of the French force was the fact that, as far as they knew, not a single Britis... | [
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It is well that students sternly devoted to that science should issue bulletins, from time to time, upon the state of the Detective Story; the stage it has recently reached in its present alleged progress or decline. Some hold that the possibilities of the detective story will soon be exhausted. They take the view that... | [
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After a while Narayan Singh crept out and climbed a crag, from which to get a better view of the locality. To make the most of that he had to stand upright on the top, and was clearly silhouetted against the sky. Someone three hundred yards away began shooting at him. The first shot missed altogether, but announced the... | [
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Again he lapsed into silence and I watched the monkey. Its chatter ceased entirely and it became motionless. But at this stage the other monkeys to whom it had been talking noticed the change and gathered around it. At first they had paid no attention to its silence; for even a monkey does not talk all the time. But wh... | [
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Back Chat--Impudent repartee. Back and Fill--To vacillate; to shuffle. Back the Barrer--To intervene without invitation. Barmy (Balmy)--Foolish; silly. Beak--A magistrate. (Possibly from Anglo-Saxon, Beag--a magistrate.) Beano--A feast. Beans--Coins; money. Beat--Puzzled; defeated. Beat, off the---Out of the usual rout... | [
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The wind soon blew so furiously that he could not carry sail, but had to lay to and drift before the wind. The consequence was, that we were soon brought up in the very centre of the cyclone. It was a glorious sight. The tearing winds all at once ceased to blow and the rains to fall, as if at the bidding of a magician'... | [
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When he indignantly reported his employers' distrust of Negroes to Ash and Martha, they laughed. Said Ash, "You're a promising ethnologist. The only thing you've missed is the whole point. We've told you right along that there isn't any difference. It's only you and radical Harlem who insist that everything in ebony... | [
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"We have a few neighbors," said Mrs. Maxwell, "with whom we hold occasionally a little social intercourse. Mrs. Earlsley and her daughters are very agreeable well-informed persons,--of superior stamp and breeding. Mr. Earlsley is a well-educated man, and magistrate of the district but he is somewhat dictatorial in his ... | [
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Then in another minute, it seemed to Alice, she found herself and Frank standing before the captain, with a few of the Bunya's passengers in the background. The door of her father's berth was wide open, and propped up by pillows he was looking eagerly on. Listening, as in a dream, she heard the captain read the service... | [
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7thly, The establishment of a most injurious monopoly amongst the inhabitants of the settlement, which has tended to the ruin of fair trade.--The commencement of this baleful system is traced back to the administration of Governor Phillip, at which time I was not in the settlement. In a very scarce period, when all cla... | [
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"Well, I had scarcely left the door when I found that the signal by which we had arranged to communicate with our patrol from the house had not been laid down. We had a wire which was attached to a piece of deal about four feet in length. This was laid across a box. If we wanted to communicate with the guard, this piec... | [
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They went into the house, and Dyson shut himself up in his room, sunk deep in doubtful thought, but yet with the shadow of a suspicion growing within him that for a while haunted his brain, all vague and fantastic, refusing to take definite form. He was sitting by the open window and looking out on the valley and saw, ... | [
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Men were scarce, and wallflowers wore their peculiar, pathetic expression, a patient, sourish smile which seemed to say: "Oh, no! don't mistake me, I know you are not coming up to me. I can hardly expect that!" And Francie would plead with one of her lovers, or with some callow youth: "Now, to please me, do let me intr... | [
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Alone once more, Ada turned her eyes to the street, where billows of dust rose and fell and settled, like waves breaking. There must be room somewhere, she thought, for quiet people who wanted to live apart from the delirium of an ailing world. For it was spring again, and the long shafts of light were ranging over t... | [
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"It was half past ten. Lewisson then said he was better and he'd have a cigar. He remained while most of the others went off to bed. Mr. Thibaud was the last of the party to retire. He went up about eleven, leaving me and Lewisson in the smoke-room. We talked for half an hour, and then I persuaded him to go to bed, and... | [
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And here I would say in parenthesis that on returning to town I sought out a very old friend of mine, a man who has devoted a lifetime to strange and esoteric studies. I thought that I had a tale that would interest him profoundly, but I found that he heard me with a good deal of indifference. And at this very point of... | [
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Nest asked no further questions; she simply was afraid to. She did not need Barr to tell her that he was alluding to her own father. Well, there was a chance that Angela would be happy after all, and that was so much gained. There would be great trouble and tribulation yet, but Barr, she fancied, was going to win throu... | [
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That I was one day to experience a grief as profound as that of my mother, we shall find in the course of this narrative, but it was neither then nor thus that I imagined it. Nevertheless, like a principal actor who ought to have learned his part and to have been in his place long beforehand but has arrived only at the... | [
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Dataset Card for Guttenberg Austrlia Collection
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Dataset Details
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Dataset Structure
This dataset consists of a single column called "paragraphs." Each entry in this column represents a paragraph extracted from various books and novels available on Project Gutenberg Australia. The dataset does not contain additional metadata such as author names, publication dates, or book titles, focusing purely on the textual content. [More Information Needed]
Dataset Creation
Curation Rationale
The primary motivation for creating this dataset was to collect a large corpus of Australian literature and other written works to support the development of an Australian Large Language Model (LLM). By focusing on texts that are culturally and historically significant to Australia, this dataset aims to enhance the performance and relevance of language models trained specifically for Australian English and the cultural context of Australia. The dataset provides a rich source of language data that can be used to train, fine-tune, or evaluate LLMs with a focus on Australian literature, expressions, and nuances. [More Information Needed]
Source Data
The source data for this dataset comes from Project Gutenberg Australia, a repository of texts that are in the public domain within Australia. The data was collected using a web scraping tool called Scrapy, which was employed to systematically extract paragraphs from a wide range of Australian novels and books available on the Project Gutenberg Australia website. The data primarily consists of literary texts, including classic and contemporary Australian literature, which are freely available and representative of the Australian cultural and linguistic landscape.
This dataset serves as a foundational resource for developing AI models that better understand and generate Australian English, contributing to the broader goal of building robust, culturally aware AI systems.
Data Collection and Processing
The data was collected using a web scraping tool called Scrapy to extract paragraphs from various texts available on Project Gutenberg Australia. The selection criteria for the data focused on texts that are in the public domain within Australia, primarily Australian literature and other culturally significant works. The scraping process involved identifying and extracting paragraphs from these texts, which were then compiled into a single-column format in the dataset.
Filtering and Normalization: The dataset did not undergo extensive filtering or normalization during the initial collection process. However, basic cleaning was performed to remove extraneous HTML tags and other non-text elements that may have been present in the raw data. The paragraphs were extracted in their original form, preserving the language, spelling, and grammar used in the source texts.
Tools and Libraries Used: The primary tool used for data collection was Scrapy, a popular Python library for web scraping.
Who are the source data producers?
The source data producers are the original authors and publishers of the texts available on Project Gutenberg Australia. These include a range of Australian writers, both classic and contemporary, whose works have entered the public domain in Australia. Since the texts are historical and literary in nature, the demographic information about the original authors may vary widely, covering different periods, genres, and perspectives within Australian literature.
In many cases, the texts reflect the cultural and societal contexts of their time, providing insights into the identity, values, and experiences of their authors. However, specific demographic or identity information about the authors is generally not included within the dataset itself, as the focus is on the textual content.
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Bias, Risks, and Limitations
While the dataset is valuable for training models on Australian English, users should be aware of potential biases. The texts were selected based on their availability in the public domain, which may result in a skewed representation of Australian literature, favoring older, more established works. This could lead to an overemphasis on historical perspectives and underrepresentation of contemporary or marginalized voices.
Technical Limitations: The dataset consists of raw paragraphs without contextual information, which may limit its effectiveness in certain NLP tasks that require understanding of larger textual structures or metadata. Additionally, the lack of annotations or labels means that the dataset may require significant preprocessing before it can be used in specific applications.
Recommendations
Given the potential biases and limitations, users should consider complementing this dataset with more diverse and contemporary sources to ensure a balanced representation of Australian literature. Care should be taken when using the dataset for tasks that require sensitivity to cultural or historical context, as the texts may include outdated or biased language.
For technical applications, it may be necessary to enrich the dataset with additional metadata or annotations, depending on the specific use case. Users are encouraged to critically evaluate the dataset’s suitability for their intended applications, particularly if the model’s outputs will be used in sensitive or impactful contexts.
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For any further details conatct Matthew Altenburg: Matthew.Altenburg@anu.edu.au
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