| --- |
| 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. |
|
|
| ```json |
| {"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`**. |
|
|
| ## Related |
| 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**. |
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