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BookCorpus

Introduced by Yukun Zhu et al. in Aligning Books and Movies: Towards Story-like Visual Explanations by Watching Movies and Reading Books1 Jan 2015 archive 2025-07-28

BookCorpus is a large collection of free novel books written by unpublished authors, which contains 11,038 books (around 74M sentences and 1G words) of 16 different sub-genres (e.g., Romance, Historical, Adventure, etc.).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)PaperCode
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.

DateSamples 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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