LION Dataset

The presented dataset consists of 198 digitised pages, from eight notepads of the manuscript collection of Swedish author Astrid Lindgren (1907 - 2002), written in the Swedish stenography system Melin. It covers portions of the first six chapters of her novel The Brothers Lionheart (1973), inspiring the name of the dataset, as well as excerpts from three other works by Lindgren. LION is the first of its kind in several regards. Firstly, it is the first dataset containing a portion of Astrid Lindgren's original drafts and handwriting. Secondly, it is the first to present text, written in the Swedish stenography system Melin. Finally, it is the first publicly available dataset, covering a substantial amount of handwritten lines in any kind of stenographic system. The repository contains page and line images, as well as annotations, in the form of bounding boxes and transliterations. Furthermore, data splittings (train, validation, test) are proposed. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Please also see the included LICENSE file or http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

本次公开数据集包含198页数字化手稿，源自瑞典作家阿斯特丽德·林德格伦（Astrid Lindgren，1907-2002）手稿馆藏中的8本笔记本，所用书写系统为瑞典梅林速记系统（Melin）。数据集涵盖其1973年小说《狮心兄弟》（The Brothers Lionheart）前六章的部分内容，这也是本数据集名称的灵感来源，同时还收录了林德格伦另外三部作品的节选片段。
LION数据集在多个方面尚属首次：其一，它是首个收录阿斯特丽德·林德格伦原创手稿笔迹的数据集；其二，它首次公开了采用瑞典梅林速记系统书写的文本；其三，它是首个可公开获取的、涵盖大量任意速记体系手写文本行的数据集。
该数据集仓库包含页面级与行级图像，以及边界框（bounding boxes）、音译转写（transliterations）形式的标注信息。此外，本数据集还提供了训练集、验证集、测试集的划分方案。
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