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BookCorpus dataset gone

Open koga73 opened this issue 8 years ago • 11 comments

The BookCorpus dataset located at http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~mbweb/ returns a 403. Can you provide a mirror or at the very least give a few lines as an example of how the dataset needs to be formatted?

koga73 avatar Nov 15 '16 21:11 koga73

this one? http://yknzhu.wixsite.com/mbweb

naotokui avatar Dec 06 '16 09:12 naotokui

What about using the google big query? Its freaking huge.

On Dec 6, 2016 2:51 AM, "Nao Tokui" [email protected] wrote:

this one? http://yknzhu.wixsite.com/mbweb

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MikeDrones avatar Dec 07 '16 04:12 MikeDrones

gone again

eyaler avatar Jun 21 '18 13:06 eyaler

I went to the website and it said we'd have to collect it ourselves if we want the dataset. I wonder if anyone knows what happened?

chiphuyen avatar Jul 13 '18 22:07 chiphuyen

I also wonder if I must collect the dataset myself. Is there any other source to get the dataset?

TZWwww avatar Aug 02 '18 15:08 TZWwww

Also looking for the same dataset, anybody finds it?

ChenXi1992 avatar Nov 26 '18 10:11 ChenXi1992

The sad thing is there are new papers that reference this dataset and reference the old paper for the corpus. The dataset has vanished from their website and there are no answers from any of the authors. I am searching and it is not available anywhere.

abhinavkashyap avatar Dec 23 '18 12:12 abhinavkashyap

@TZWwww I wrote a crawler for the original site, smashwords.com. Please use this. https://github.com/soskek/bookcorpus

soskek avatar Jan 02 '19 05:01 soskek

Do you think it is possible to host the dataset for a while? I run into HTTP errors on some of the books, so this script ends up downloading only 7000/11000 books.

ameet-1997 avatar May 20 '20 17:05 ameet-1997

I cannot. Instead, see another option: https://github.com/soskek/bookcorpus/issues/24#issuecomment-556024973

soskek avatar May 20 '20 20:05 soskek

Would be ideal, if it were via distributed P2P file sharing systems.

pushkarparanjpe avatar May 26 '20 10:05 pushkarparanjpe