Name: Rewayatech
Description: a collection of Arabic stories written in electronic forms between the years of 2003-2015 by online users using anonymized usernames
Provider: Multiple institutions
Paper Title: Rewayatech: Saudi Web Novels Dataset
  
Tasks: text generation, language modeling
Venue Name: nan
Authors: Aseel Addawood,D. Alzeer
Abstract: The internet has changed the way people perceived fiction to a new level. For instance, online forums have given people the opportunity to write without revealing their real identities. Especially in the Saudi context, online users were using these forums to write web novels that reflect their culture, lives, concerns, hopes and dreams. In this paper, we describe a dataset that was collected from one of the online forums that was used for sharing web novels among its readers. The collected dataset contains 1,267 novels between 2003-2015. This data set is available to the research community to analyze to gain a better understanding of the social, economical, and behavioral mindset that was manifested in the community in that decade.