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+"Verse-Wikisource" is a collection of 200,000 verses extracted from 9,000 works digitized by the Wikisource project.
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+Verses have been selected through the following process:
+* All works categorized as poem (or as sub-categories of poem), using petscan.
+* Only the texts parts labelled as "poem" with Wikisource internal markup system.
+* Only the verses shorted than 21 words to remove remaining artifacts.
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+The dataset includes the following features:
+* The individual verse.
+* Its size.
+* Its position in the original poem (which makes it possible to reconstruct the poem sequentially, if relevant)
+* The page name in Wikisource.
+* The link to the original document in Wikisource.