Pessoana

Portuguese literary corpus of 84 public-domain works of Portuguese and Brazilian classic literature, prepared for character-level language modeling. The dataset, created by vreabernardo, spans authors from Eça de Queirós and Machado de Assis to Florbela Espanca and Mário de Sá-Carneiro. It was last updated on 2026-06-19.

Use Cases

• Train character-level language models based on the corpus of 84 classic literary works.
• Analyze historical Portuguese orthography and literary style based on the pre-1990 spelling used in the texts.
• Study the evolution of Portuguese and Brazilian literature based on the included canon of authors.

Strengths

• Includes 84 distinct public-domain literary works.
• Focuses on a defined canon of classic Portuguese and Brazilian authors.
• Specifically prepared for character-level language modeling tasks.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Public-domain works of Portuguese and Brazilian classic literature.

Collection Method

Prepared for character-level language modeling, likely involving text extraction and compilation.

Time Range

Works are classic literature, implying a historical time range, but specific dates are not provided.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-19 12:35:13; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Portugal and Brazil.