PPORTAL_ner

An Annotated Dataset of Portuguese Literary Entities

The corpus is tailored to Brazilian and Portuguese literary texts, containing annotations for five entity categories, including PER, LOC, GPE, ORG, and DATE. Within a diverse collection of 25 literary works, it offers a total of 125,059 tokens and 5,266 annotated entities. This dataset contributes to the development of potentially more accurate and context-aware NER models, as well as to encourage further exploration within Portuguese literature.

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Our corpus is sourced from PPORTAL, an extensive repository of metadata containing over 80,000 public domain literary works in the Portuguese language, predominantly derived from Brazil and Portugal. PPORTAL aggregates data from three digital libraries: Domínio Público, Projecto Adamastor, and Biblioteca Digital de Literatura dos Países Lusófonos (BLPL).


To simplify referencing, this new dataset is called PPORTAL_ner. PPORTAL_ner selection process contains a diverse range of 25 individual literary works, spanning different authors and literary styles. All of these texts were published prior to 1953, adhering to the current criteria for public domain status in Brazil, with the majority falling within the timeframe spanning from 1554 to 1938.

Title Author Language Year #Tokens #Sentences #Entities
Menina e Moça Bernardim Ribeiro PT 1554 5004 139 106
Os Lusíadas Luís Vaz de Camões PT 1572 5000 118 188
Eurico, o Presbítero Alexandre Herculano PT 1844 5000 147 174
Memórias de um Sargento de Milícias Manuel Antônio de Almeida PT-BR 1854 5000 166 212
Amor de Perdição Camilo Castelo Branco PT 1861 5001 204 309
Iracema José de Alencar PT-BR 1865 5000 275 335
As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor Júlio Dinis PT 1867 5000 264 199
A Morgadinha dos Canaviais Júlio Dinis PT 1868 5000 245 242
Inocência Visconde de Taunay PT-BR 1872 5002 204 156
Helena Machado de Assis PT-BR 1876 5000 275 260
O Mandarim Eça de Queirós PT 1880 5000 144 180
Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas Machado de Assis PT-BR 1881 5002 204 156
O Alienista Machado de Assis PT-BR 1882 5001 195 218
Casa de Pensão Aluísio Azevedo PT-BR 1884 5000 289 254
O Cortiço Aluísio Azevedo PT-BR 1890 5000 195 153
Quincas Borba Machado de Assis PT-BR 1891 5000 299 201
Dom Casmurro Machado de Assis PT-BR 1899 5003 256 183
Os Sertões Euclides da Cunha PT-BR 1902 5000 154 179
Esaú e Jacó Machado de Assis PT-BR 1904 5000 249 204
Cartas de Inglaterra Eça de Queirós PT 1905 5000 134 299
Memorial de Aires Machado de Assis PT-BR 1908 5001 271 245
A Confissão de Lúcio Mário de Sá-Carneiro PT 1913 5000 244 137
Alves \& Companhia Eça de Queirós PT 1925 5000 192 172
Capitães da Areia Jorge Amado PT-BR 1937 5001 225 306
Vidas Secas Graciliano Ramos PT-BR 1938 5001 345 230
Total 125014 5418 5266

License

PPORTAL_ner © 2023 by Mariana O. Silva is licensed under CC BY 4.0