openlanguagedata/oldi_seed

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, is currently being managed by OLDI, the Open Language Data Initiative.

• Curated by: The Open Language Data Initiative
• Language(s) (NLP): Around 40, see documentation for full list.
• License: CC BY-SA 4.0

Citation

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.

Other authors have since contributed to the dataset. If you use OLDI Seed in your work, please cite the relevant papers listed in 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:

{
  "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 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 and the NLLB paper 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 directory.

Dataset Card Contact

For more information about the OLDI Seed dataset, please see 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). 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 <john.doe@example.com>, using your real name.

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

Please see the Contribution guidelines for further information.

How to add a pull request

1. Go to https://huggingface.co/datasets/openlanguagedata/oldi_seed/discussions, press "New pull request".
2. In the popup window, enter a branch name and press "Create branch".
3. On your computer, do git clone https://huggingface.co/datasets/openlanguagedata/oldi_seed.
4. Checkout to your newly created branch (e.g. cd oldi_seed && git fetch origin refs/pr/4:pr/4 && git checkout pr/4).
5. Check that you are logged in to the HF CLI tool (hf auth whoami). If not, please log into it (hf auth login and enter your token).
6. Modify a file (for adding new languages, see the instructions below) and add the changes to git (e.g. git add seed/rus_Cyrl.jsonl).
7. Commit with an -s flag (e.g. git commit -s -m "fix a few typos in the Russian dev set").
8. Push (e.g. git push origin pr/4:refs/pr/4) — important to make sure to push to the same "refs" branch!
9. Go to the pull request page and see if it reflects your changes.
10. When your pull request is ready, press the "Publish" button in its web interface.

If you find this difficult, please contact us by email info@oldi.org or in our Discord group!

Testing your changes

After contributing new translations or modifying existing ones, you can check that the data format is OK. Assuming that you have the Python packages pytest and dataset installed, you can type

pytest

in your console (in the oldi_seed directory), and the tests will run. If any of them fails, please inspect the translations, following the hints in the test output.

Changelog

See 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]
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]
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