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license: cc |
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task_categories: |
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- translation |
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language: |
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- am |
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- en |
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size_categories: |
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- 10K<n<100K |
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--- |
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# AGE: Amharic, Ge’ez, and English Parallel Dataset |
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## Overview |
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The AGE dataset is an open-source tripartite alignment of Amharic, Ge’ez, and English parallel sentences. This dataset aims to address the lack of high-quality resources for low-resource languages like Amharic and Ge’ez, facilitating the development of Natural Language Processing (NLP) models. |
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## Data Collection |
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Our dataset was sourced from diverse materials, and we removed excessively disordered portions to ensure quality. The dataset development process is illustrated in the accompanying figure. |
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Below is an example row: |
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```json |
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[ |
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{ |
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"amh": "ንጉሡ ዳዊትም ሸመገለ ዕድሜውም በዛ፤ ልብስም ደረቡለት፥ ነገር ግን አይሞቀውም ነበር።", |
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"gez": "ወዳዊትሰ ንጉሥ ልህቀ ወኀለፈ መዋዕሊሁ ወይከድንዎ አልባሰ ወኢያመውቆ ።", |
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"eng": "Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat." |
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}, |
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{ |
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"amh": "ባሪያዎቹም። ለጌታችን ለንጉሡ ድንግል ትፈለጋለች፤ በንጉሡም ፊት ቆማ ታገልግለው፥ በጌታችንም በንጉሡ ብብት ተኝታ ታሙቀው አሉት።", |
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"gez": "ወይቤሉ ደቁ ለዳዊት ይኅሥሡ ለእግዚእነ ለንጉሥ ወለተ ድንግለ ወያምጽእዋ ኀበ ንጉሥ ወትሰክብ ምስሌሁ ወተሐቅፎ ወታስተማውቆ ወይመውቅ እግዚእነ ንጉሥ ።", |
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"eng": "Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat." |
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}, |
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] |
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``` |
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### መጽሐፈ ፡ ኩፋሌ (Book of Jubilees) |
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We have the Book of Jubilees only in Ge'ez and English |
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`Kufale.xlsx` - data and associated metadata in xlsx format. |
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## Dataset Structure |
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The dataset is available in both CSV and JSON formats, with columns tagged for each language: |
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- `amh`: Amharic |
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- `gez`: Ge’ez |
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- `eng`: English |
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## Citation |
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If you use this dataset, please cite our paper: |
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``` |
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@inproceedings{ademtew-birbo-2024-age, |
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title = "{AGE}: {A}mharic, {G}e{'}ez and {E}nglish Parallel Dataset", |
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author = "Ademtew, Henok and |
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Birbo, Mikiyas", |
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editor = "Ojha, Atul Kr. and |
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Liu, Chao-hong and |
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Vylomova, Ekaterina and |
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Pirinen, Flammie and |
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Abbott, Jade and |
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Washington, Jonathan and |
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Oco, Nathaniel and |
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Malykh, Valentin and |
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Logacheva, Varvara and |
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Zhao, Xiaobing", |
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booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2024)", |
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month = aug, |
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year = "2024", |
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address = "Bangkok, Thailand", |
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publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", |
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url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.loresmt-1.14", |
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doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.loresmt-1.14", |
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pages = "139--145", |
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abstract = "African languages are not well-represented in Natural Language Processing (NLP). The main reason is a lack of resources for training models. Low-resource languages, such as Amharic and Ge{'}ez, cannot benefit from modern NLP methods because of the lack of high-quality datasets. This paper presents AGE, an open-source tripartite alignment of Amharic, Ge{'}ez, and English parallel dataset. Additionally, we introduced a novel, 1,000 Ge{'}ez-centered sentences sourced from areas such as news and novels. Furthermore, we developed a model from a multilingual pre-trained language model, which brings 12.29 and 30.66 for English-Ge{'}ez and Ge{'}ez to English, respectively, and 9.39 and 12.29 for Amharic-Ge{'}ez and Ge{'}ez-Amharic respectively.", |
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} |
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``` |
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