Ficbook: 1.4 Million Fan Fiction Stories from ficbook.net

Ficbook is a dataset of 1.4 million fan fiction stories collected from the ficbook.net platform. The dataset was created by Ilya Gusev and is primarily in Russian. Collection was reported as still in progress as of the last update on November 7, 2024.

Use Cases

• Train language models for Russian text generation based on narrative structures.
• Analyze linguistic patterns and themes in fan fiction communities.
• Study the evolution of writing styles and tropes within a large corpus of user-generated stories.
• Develop text classification models to categorize fan fiction by genre or fandom based on story content.

Strengths

• Contains 1.4 million individual stories, providing substantial volume for analysis.
• Sourced from a specific, named platform (ficbook.net), allowing for source-aware research.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count beyond the stated 1.4 million stories is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect linguistic and cultural bias inherent to its primary source (Russian-language fan fiction).

Provenance

Source

ficbook.net

Collection Method

Collected via script (create_ficbook.py).

Freshness

Last updated 2024-11-07 18:01:25; freshness should be verified.