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---
annotations_creators:
  - found
language_creators:
  - expert-generated
license: cc-by-sa-4.0
pretty_name: OLDI-Seed
task_categories:
  - text-generation
  - translation
language:
  - ace
  - ary
  - arz
  - bam
  - ban
  - ben
  - bho
  - bjn
  - bug
  - crh
  - dik
  - dzo
  - eng
  - fra
  - fur
  - fuv
  - gug
  - hne
  - ita
  - kas
  - knc
  - lij
  - lim
  - lmo
  - ltg
  - mag
  - mni
  - mri
  - nqo
  - nus
  - pbt
  - prs
  - scn
  - shn
  - spa
  - srd
  - szl
  - taq
  - vec
  - zgh
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/*.parquet
  - config_name: ace_Arab
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/ace_Arab.parquet
  - config_name: ace_Latn
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/ace_Latn.parquet
  - config_name: ary_Arab
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/ary_Arab.parquet
  - config_name: arz_Arab
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/arz_Arab.parquet
  - config_name: bam_Latn
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/bam_Latn.parquet
  - config_name: ban_Latn
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/ban_Latn.parquet
  - config_name: ben_Beng
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/ben_Beng.parquet
  - config_name: bho_Deva
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/bho_Deva.parquet
  - config_name: bjn_Arab
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/bjn_Arab.parquet
  - config_name: bjn_Latn
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/bjn_Latn.parquet
  - config_name: bug_Latn
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/bug_Latn.parquet
  - config_name: crh_Latn
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/crh_Latn.parquet
  - config_name: dik_Latn
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/dik_Latn.parquet
  - config_name: dzo_Tibt
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/dzo_Tibt.parquet
  - config_name: eng_Latn
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/eng_Latn.parquet
  - config_name: fra_Latn
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/fra_Latn.parquet
  - config_name: fur_Latn
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/fur_Latn.parquet
  - config_name: fuv_Latn
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/fuv_Latn.parquet
  - config_name: gug_Latn
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/gug_Latn.parquet
  - config_name: hne_Deva
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/hne_Deva.parquet
  - config_name: ita_Latn
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/ita_Latn.parquet
  - config_name: kas_Arab
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/kas_Arab.parquet
  - config_name: kas_Deva
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/kas_Deva.parquet
  - config_name: knc_Arab
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/knc_Arab.parquet
  - config_name: knc_Latn
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/knc_Latn.parquet
  - config_name: lij_Latn
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/lij_Latn.parquet
  - config_name: lim_Latn
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/lim_Latn.parquet
  - config_name: lmo_Latn
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/lmo_Latn.parquet
  - config_name: ltg_Latn
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/ltg_Latn.parquet
  - config_name: mag_Deva
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/mag_Deva.parquet
  - config_name: mni_Beng
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/mni_Beng.parquet
  - config_name: mri_Latn
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/mri_Latn.parquet
  - config_name: nqo_Nkoo
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/nqo_Nkoo.parquet
  - config_name: nus_Latn
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/nus_Latn.parquet
  - config_name: pbt_Arab
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/pbt_Arab.parquet
  - config_name: prs_Arab
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/prs_Arab.parquet
  - config_name: scn_Latn
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/scn_Latn.parquet
  - config_name: shn_Mymr
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/shn_Mymr.parquet
  - config_name: spa_Latn
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/spa_Latn.parquet
  - config_name: srd_Latn
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/srd_Latn.parquet
  - config_name: szl_Latn
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/szl_Latn.parquet
  - config_name: taq_Latn
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/taq_Latn.parquet
  - config_name: taq_Tfng
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/taq_Tfng.parquet
  - config_name: vec_Latn
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/vec_Latn.parquet
  - config_name: zgh_Tfng
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: seed/zgh_Tfng.parquet
---
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---
# OLDI Seed Machine Translation Datacard

OLDI Seed is a machine translation dataset designed to be used to kick-start machine translation models for language directions which currently lack large-scale datasets.


## Dataset Details

### Dataset Description

OLDI Seed is a parallel corpus which consists of 6,193 sentences sampled from English Wikipedia and translated into 44 languages. It can be used to kick-start machine translation models for language directions which currently lack large-scale datasets. 

The data, which is licensed under [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), is currently being managed by OLDI, the [Open Language Data Initiative](https://oldi.org).

- **Curated by:** [The Open Language Data Initiative](https://oldi.org/)
- **Language(s) (NLP):** Around 40, see documentation for full list.
- **License:** [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

### Dataset Sources

OLDI Seed is an updated version of the open source seed dataset described in the paper [Small Data, Big Impact: Leveraging Minimal Data for Effective Machine Translation](https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.154):

```bibtex
@inproceedings{seed-23,
    title = {Small Data, Big Impact: Leveraging Minimal Data for Effective Machine Translation},
    author = {Maillard, Jean and Gao, Cynthia and Kalbassi, Elahe and Sadagopan, Kaushik Ram and Goswami, Vedanuj and Koehn, Philipp and Fan, Angela and Guzmán, Francisco},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)},
    year = {2023},
    address = {Toronto, Canada},
    publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
    pages = {2740--2756},
    url = {https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.154},
}
```

Other authors have since contributed to the dataset. If you use this dataset in your work, please cite the relevant papers listed in [bibliography.bib](bibliography.bib).

## Uses

OLDI Seed is intended to be used to kick-start machine translation models for language directions which currently lack large-scale datasets.

## Dataset Structure

Each instance in the dataset is structured as in the following example:

```json
{
  "id": 17,
  "iso_639_3": "gug",
  "iso_15924": "Latn",
  "glottocode": "para1311",
  "text": "Osẽ emperatriz viuda Maria Feodorovna-ramo peteĩ musical de Broadway mbykymi héravaa Anya 1965 arýpe.",
  "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Gish",
  "last_updated": "1.0"
}
```

### Data Fields
- `id`: ID number for each line of data. Lines with the same ID in the same split are translations of each other.
- `iso_639_3`: The ISO 639-3 code indicating the language variety.
- `iso_15924`: The ISO 15924 code indicating the script.
- `glottocode`: The [Glottocode](https://glottolog.org/glottolog/language) corresponding to the language variety.
- `text`: A line of text in the indicated language.
- `url`: The URL for the English article from which the sentence was extracted.
- `last_updated`: The version number of the dataset in which the entry was last updated.

## Dataset Creation

See the paper [Small Data, Big Impact: Leveraging Minimal Data for Effective Machine Translation](https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.154) and the [NLLB paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.04672#page=18.71) for more details.

### Additional Datacards

The datasets for some language varieties have individual datacards describing their creation. These can be found in the [dataset_cards](https://huggingface.co/datasets/openlanguagedata/oldi_seed/tree/main/dataset_cards) directory.

## Dataset Card Contact

For more information about the OLDI Seed dataset, please see [oldi.org](https://oldi.org/)

## Contributing

Fixes and new language contributions are most welcome.

By contributing to this project you agree to the [Developer Certificate of
Origin (DCO)](DCO). This document was created by the Linux Kernel community and is a
simple statement that you, as a contributor, have the legal right to make the
contribution.

In order to show your agreement with the DCO you should include at the end of commit message,
the following line: `Signed-off-by: John Doe <[email protected]>`, using your real name.

This can be done easily using the `-s` flag on the `git commit`.

Please see the [Contribution guidelines](https://oldi.org/guidelines) for further information.

## Changelog

See [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md) for information about the latest changes.

## Language coverage
| Code  | Script | Glottocode |               Name                |                           Notes                            |
|-------|--------|------------|-----------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------|
| `ace` | `Arab` | `achi1257` |       Acehnese (Jawi script)      |                                                            |
| `ace` | `Latn` | `achi1257` |      Acehnese (Latin script)      |                                                            |
| `ary` | `Arab` | `moro1292` |          Moroccan Arabic          |                                                            |
| `arz` | `Arab` | `egyp1253` |          Egyptian Arabic          |                                                            |
| `bam` | `Latn` | `bamb1269` |              Bambara              |                                                            |
| `ban` | `Latn` | `bali1278` |              Balinese             |                                                            |
| `ben` | `Beng` | `beng1280` |              Bengali              |                                                            |
| `bho` | `Deva` | `bhoj1244` |              Bhojpuri             |                                                            |
| `bjn` | `Arab` | `banj1239` |        Banjar (Jawi script)       |                                                            |
| `bjn` | `Latn` | `banj1239` |       Banjar (Latin script)       |                                                            |
| `bug` | `Latn` | `bugi1244` |              Buginese             |                                                            |
| `crh` | `Latn` | `crim1257` |           Crimean Tatar           |                                                            |
| `dik` | `Latn` | `sout2832` |         Southwestern Dinka        |                                                            |
| `dzo` | `Tibt` | `dzon1239` |              Dzongkha             |                                                            |
| `eng` | `Latn` | `stan1293` |              English              |                                                            |
| `fra` | `Latn` | `stan1290` |               French              |                                                            |
| `fur` | `Latn` | `east2271` |              Friulian             |                                                            |
| `fuv` | `Latn` | `nige1253` |         Nigerian Fulfulde         |                                                            |
| `gug` | `Latn` | `para1311` |         Paraguayan Guaraní        |                                                            |
| `hne` | `Deva` | `chha1249` |           Chhattisgarhi           |                                                            |
| `ita` | `Latn` | `ital1282` |              Italian              |                                                            |
| `kas` | `Arab` | `kash1277` |      Kashmiri (Arabic script)     |                                                            |
| `kas` | `Deva` | `kash1277` |    Kashmiri (Devanagari script)   |                                                            |
| `kir` | `Cyrl` | `kirg1245` |              Kyrgyz               |                                                            |
| `knc` | `Arab` | `cent2050` |   Central Kanuri (Arabic script)  |                                                            |
| `knc` | `Latn` | `cent2050` |   Central Kanuri (Latin script)   |                                                            |
| `lij` | `Latn` | `geno1240` |         Ligurian (Genoese)        |                                                            |
| `lim` | `Latn` | `limb1263` |             Limburgish            |                                                            |
| `lmo` | `Latn` | `lomb1257` |              Lombard              | [[1]](https://github.com/openlanguagedata/flores/issues/5) |
| `ltg` | `Latn` | `east2282` |             Latgalian             |                                                            |
| `mag` | `Deva` | `maga1260` |               Magahi              |                                                            |
| `mni` | `Beng` | `mani1292` | Meitei (Manipuri, Bengali script) |                                                            |
| `mri` | `Latn` | `maor1246` |               Maori               |                                                            |
| `nqo` | `Nkoo` | `nkoa1234` |                Nko                |                                                            |
| `nus` | `Latn` | `nuer1246` |                Nuer               |                                                            |
| `pbt` | `Arab` | `sout2649` |          Southern Pashto          |                                                            |
| `prs` | `Arab` | `dari1249` |                Dari               |                                                            |
| `scn` | `Latn` | `sici1248` |              Sicilian             |                                                            |
| `shn` | `Mymr` | `shan1277` |                Shan               |                                                            |
| `spa` | `Latn` | `amer1254` |      Spanish (Latin American)     |                                                            |
| `srd` | `Latn` | `sard1257` |             Sardinian             | [[1]](https://github.com/openlanguagedata/flores/issues/6) |
| `szl` | `Latn` | `sile1253` |              Silesian             |                                                            |
| `taq` | `Latn` | `tama1365` |      Tamasheq (Latin script)      |                                                            |
| `taq` | `Tfng` | `tama1365` |     Tamasheq (Tifinagh script)    |                                                            |
| `vec` | `Latn` | `vene1259` |              Venetian             |                                                            |
| `zgh` | `Tfng` | `stan1324` |    Standard Moroccan Tamazight    |                                                            |