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| --- |
| |
| # PtBrVId |
|
|
| **PtBrVId** is a Portuguese Variety Identification corpus, built by combining pre-existing datasets originally created for different NLP tasks and released under permissive licenses. |
|
|
| Our goal is to provide a large, diverse, and multi-domain resource for studying and improving automatic identification of **European Portuguese (PT-PT)** and **Brazilian Portuguese (PT-BR)**. |
|
|
| --- |
|
|
| ## 📚 Data Sources |
|
|
| The corpus is composed of datasets from various domains, each selected to ensure (as much as possible) mono-variety content. The current release is silver-labeled and unsupervised, meaning that we cannot fully guarantee that all documents are strictly mono-variety. A future version will include a refined annotation schema with both automatic and manual verification. |
|
|
| <p align="center"> |
| <table> |
| <tr> |
| <th>Domain</th> |
| <th>Variety</th> |
| <th>Dataset</th> |
| <th>Original Task</th> |
| <th># Docs</th> |
| <th>License</th> |
| <th>Silver Labeled</th> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td rowspan="5">Literature</td> |
| <td rowspan="3">PT-PT</td> |
| <td><a href="http://arquivopessoa.net/">Arquivo Pessoa</a></td> |
| <td>-</td> |
| <td>~4k</td> |
| <td>CC</td> |
| <td>✔</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/99">Gutenberg Project</a></td> |
| <td>-</td> |
| <td>6</td> |
| <td>CC</td> |
| <td>✔</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td><a href="https://www.clul.ulisboa.pt/recurso/corpus-de-textos-literarios">LT-Corpus</a></td> |
| <td>-</td> |
| <td>56</td> |
| <td>ELRA END USER</td> |
| <td>✘</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td rowspan="2">PT-BR</td> |
| <td><a href="https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/rtatman/brazilian-portuguese-literature-corpus">Brazilian Literature</a></td> |
| <td>Author Identification</td> |
| <td>81</td> |
| <td>CC</td> |
| <td>✘</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>LT-Corpus</td> |
| <td>-</td> |
| <td>8</td> |
| <td>ELRA END USER</td> |
| <td>✘</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td rowspan="2">Politics</td> |
| <td>PT-PT</td> |
| <td><a href="http://www.statmt.org/europarl/">Koehn (2005) Europarl</a></td> |
| <td>Machine Translation</td> |
| <td>~10k</td> |
| <td>CC</td> |
| <td>✘</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>PT-BR</td> |
| <td>Brazilian Senate Speeches<sup>1</sup></td> |
| <td>-</td> |
| <td>~5k</td> |
| <td>CC</td> |
| <td>✔</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td rowspan="2">Journalistic</td> |
| <td>PT-PT</td> |
| <td><a href="https://www.linguateca.pt/CETEMPublico/">CETEM Público</a></td> |
| <td>-</td> |
| <td>1M</td> |
| <td>CC</td> |
| <td>✘</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>PT-BR</td> |
| <td><a href="https://www.linguateca.pt/CETEMFolha/">CETEM Folha</a></td> |
| <td>-</td> |
| <td>272k</td> |
| <td>CC</td> |
| <td>✘</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td rowspan="3">Social Media</td> |
| <td>PT-PT</td> |
| <td><a href="https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2021.ranlp-1.37/">Ramalho (2021)</a></td> |
| <td>Fake News Detection</td> |
| <td>2M</td> |
| <td>MIT</td> |
| <td>✔</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td rowspan="2">PT-BR</td> |
| <td><a href="https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2022.lrec-1.322/">Vargas (2022)</a></td> |
| <td>Hate Speech Detection</td> |
| <td>5k</td> |
| <td>CC-BY-NC-4.0</td> |
| <td>✘</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td><a href="https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2021.wlp-1.72/">Cunha (2021)</a></td> |
| <td>Fake News Detection</td> |
| <td>2k</td> |
| <td>GPL-3.0</td> |
| <td>✔</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Web</td> |
| <td>BOTH</td> |
| <td><a href="https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lrec-1.451/">Ortiz-Suarez (2020)</a></td> |
| <td>-</td> |
| <td>10k</td> |
| <td>CC</td> |
| <td>✔</td> |
| </tr> |
| </table> |
| </p> |
| |
| <p align="center"><em>Table 1: PtBrVId data sources and metadata.</em></p> |
|
|
| <sup>1</sup> The **Brazilian Senate Speeches** dataset was created by the authors through web crawling of the Brazilian Senate website and is available on [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/). |
|
|
| A raw version of the dataset is available [here](https://huggingface.co/datasets/liaad/PtBrVId-Raw). |
|
|
| --- |
|
|
| ## 🛠 Annotation & Preprocessing |
|
|
| ### Annotation |
| We selected data sources known to contain primarily mono-variety Portuguese texts. While this approach helps ensure quality, this **first release** is entirely unsupervised. A planned **v2** will introduce a hybrid annotation strategy combining automated labeling and manual review. |
|
|
| ### Preprocessing Pipeline |
| To standardize and clean the data, we applied the following steps: |
|
|
| 1. **Remove NaN values**. |
| 2. **Remove empty documents**. |
| 3. **Remove duplicate documents**. |
| 4. Apply the [`clean-text`](https://github.com/jfilter/clean-text) library to strip non-relevant content for variety identification. |
| 5. Remove outlier documents with lengths below `Q1 - 1.5 × IQR` or above `Q3 + 1.5 × IQR`, where `Q1` and `Q3` are the first and third quartiles, and `IQR` is the interquartile range. |
|
|
| --- |
|
|
| ## 📖 Citation |
|
|
| If you use this corpus, please cite: |
|
|
| ```bibtex |
| @article{Sousa_Almeida_Silvano_Cantante_Campos_Jorge_2025, |
| title={Enhancing Portuguese Variety Identification with Cross-Domain Approaches}, |
| journal={Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence}, |
| volume={39}, |
| number={24}, |
| pages={25192--25200}, |
| year={2025}, |
| doi={10.1609/aaai.v39i24.34705}, |
| author={Sousa, Hugo and Almeida, Rúben and Silvano, Purificação and Cantante, Inês and Campos, Ricardo and Jorge, Alípio} |
| } |
| |