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BookCorpus
BookCorpus is a large collection of free novel books written by unpublished authors, which contains 11,038 books (around 74M sentences and 1G words) of 16 different sub-genres (e.g., Romance, Historical, Adventure, etc.).
Source: Temporal Event Knowledge Acquisition via Identifying Narratives
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
All 1 leaderboard whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.
| First row (archive order) | Paper | Code | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Language Modelling | Bookcorpus2 | Gopher BPB 0.741 | Scaling Language Models: Methods, Analysis & Insights... | allenai/dolma +2 | 1 | Compare |
Papers archive 2025-07-28
1 shown of 1 paper with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 344. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.
| Date | Samples run Syntology | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scaling Language Models: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Training Gopher | 3 | 1 | 8 Dec 2021 | not harvested |
Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28
8 loaders as listed in the archive; links are outbound and not re-checked here.
Tasks archive 2025-07-28
License archive 2025-07-28
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Modalities archive 2025-07-28
No modality tagged.
Languages archive 2025-07-28
Variants archive 2025-07-28
- BookCorpus
- Bookcorpus2
2 variant names, as the archive lists them.
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