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task_categories: |
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- translation |
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language: |
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- ha |
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- kr |
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- en |
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- fr |
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- sw |
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- swc |
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- ln |
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- nnd |
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- rhg |
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- ti |
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- 10K<n<100K |
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pretty_name: Gamayun kits |
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--- |
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# Gamayun Language Data Kits |
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There are more than 7,000 languages in the world, yet only a small proportion of them have language data presence in public. CLEAR Global's Gamayun kits are a starting point for developing audio and text corpora for languages without pre-existing data resources. We create parallel data for a language by translating a pre-compiled set of general-domain sentences in English. If audio data is needed, these translated sentences are recorded by native speakers. |
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To scale corpus production, we offer four dataset versions: |
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- Mini-kit of 5,000 sentences (`kit5k`) |
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- Small-kit of 10,000 sentences (`kit10k`) |
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- Medium-kit of 15,000 sentences (`kit15k`) |
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- Large-kit of 30,000 sentences (`kit30k`) |
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For audio corpora developed using these kits refer to the official initiative website [Gamayun portal](https://gamayun.translatorswb.org/data/). |
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## Source sentences (`core`) |
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Sentences in `core` directory are in English, French and Spanish and are sourced from the [Tatoeba repository](https://tatoeba.org). Sentence selection algorithm ensures representation of most frequently used words in the language. For more information, please refer to [corepus-gen repository](https://github.com/translatorswb/corepus-gen). `etc` directories contain sentence id's as used in the Tatoeba corpus. |
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## Parallel corpora (`parallel`) |
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Translations of the kits are performed by professionals and volunteers of TWB's translator community. A complete list of translated sentences are: |
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| Language | Pair | # Segments | Source | |
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| Hausa | English | 15,000 | Tatoeba | |
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| Kanuri | English | 5,000 | Tatoeba | |
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| Nande | French | 15,000 | Tatoeba | |
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| Rohingya | English | 5,000 | Tatoeba | |
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| Swahili (Coastal) | English | 5,000 | Tatoeba | |
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| Swahili (Congolese) | French | 25,302 | Tatoeba | |
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## Reference |
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More on [Gamayun, language equity initiative](https://translatorswithoutborders.org/gamayun/) |
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Gamayun kits are officially published in the [Gamayun portal](https://gamayun.translatorswb.org/data/). Conditions for use are described in `LICENSE.txt`. |
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If you need to cite Gamayun kits: |
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``` |
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Alp Öktem, Muhannad Albayk Jaam, Eric DeLuca, Grace Tang |
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Gamayun – Language Technology for Humanitarian Response |
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In: 2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) |
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2020 October 29 - November 1; Virtual. |
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Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9342939 |
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``` |
