Datasets:

wangekxy
/

classical-chinese-variant-collation

license: other
license_name: commercial-paid
language:
  - lzh
  - zh
pretty_name: Classical Chinese Variant Collation (校勘) — Commercial
task_categories:
  - text-generation
  - text-classification
tags:
  - classical-chinese
  - 校勘
  - textual-criticism
  - variant-collation
  - 文献学
  - commercial-dataset
size_categories:
  - n<1K
configs:
  - config_name: sample
    data_files: sample.jsonl

Classical Chinese Variant Collation · 校勘 💰 (Commercial Dataset)

This is a commercial dataset. A free 50-work preview sample is provided below (sample.jsonl, texts truncated); the full set with complete aligned texts is available upon request.

📧 To license / purchase or request a quote, email wangeksy@gmail.com. ✅ Cleared for commercial use — both members are public-domain classical works.

What this is

A textual-criticism dataset: classical works that survive in two independent editions — a digital-canon recension and its 四库全书 (Siku Quanshu) imperial edition (plus some cross-canon pairs) — aligned as (copy A, copy B) pairs with a character-level overlap score. These capture genuine transmission variants: different recensions, abridgements, 繁简/异体字 differences, and editorial lineages of the same work — not identical duplicates, not title-only collisions.

{"task":"variant_collation","title":"明儒学案","overlap":0.83,
 "a_canon":"史藏","b_canon":"四库全书","a_hanzi":786545,"b_hanzi":770000,
 "a_text":"…full text of recension A…","b_text":"…full text of recension B…"}

What you get (full set)

653 aligned variant pairs (650 distinct works), each with the complete text of both editions (the public sample truncates to a preview).
629 pairs align a treasury recension against its 四库全书 imperial edition; the remainder are cross-canon pairs within the treasury.
Overlap band 0.45–0.985 (median 0.827) — true variants only.
Per-pair metadata: title, overlap, a_canon/b_canon, a_dynasty/b_dynasty, a_hanzi/b_hanzi. Parquet (zstd). Full list in CONTENTS.md.

Why it is unique

No public corpus ships these pre-aligned. Both members are PD base text; the product is the alignment and the variant signal.
Spans canonical works: 元史, 唐会要, 明儒学案, 周礼注疏, 续名医类案, 元诗选, 宋诗钞, …
Useful for: textual-criticism / 文献学 modeling, robustness to recensional & 繁简/异体字 variation, deduplication research, 校异 study.

This repo (listing)

Public 50-work preview sample only (sample.jsonl, texts clipped). Full set with complete aligned texts delivered on purchase — email wangeksy@gmail.com.

Companion commercial datasets from the same corpus: 文言文断句·标点 Punctuation Restoration (5.3M pairs) and an expert-graded 文言→白话 Translation + QA eval.

Classical Chinese Variant Collation · 校勘 💰 (Commercial Dataset)

What this is

What you get (full set)

Why it is unique

This repo (listing)

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