Dataset Card for "para_crawl"

Dataset Summary

Web-Scale Parallel Corpora for Official European Languages.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

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Languages

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Dataset Structure

Data Instances

enbg

• Size of downloaded dataset files: 103.75 MB
• Size of the generated dataset: 356.54 MB
• Total amount of disk used: 460.27 MB

An example of 'train' looks as follows.

This example was too long and was cropped:

{
    "translation": "{\"bg\": \". “A felirat faragott karnis a bejárat fölött, templom épült 14 Július 1643, A földesúr és felesége Jeremiás Murguleţ, C..."
}

encs

• Size of downloaded dataset files: 196.41 MB
• Size of the generated dataset: 638.07 MB
• Total amount of disk used: 834.48 MB

An example of 'train' looks as follows.

This example was too long and was cropped:

{
    "translation": "{\"cs\": \". “A felirat faragott karnis a bejárat fölött, templom épült 14 Július 1643, A földesúr és felesége Jeremiás Murguleţ, C..."
}

enda

• Size of downloaded dataset files: 182.81 MB
• Size of the generated dataset: 598.62 MB
• Total amount of disk used: 781.43 MB

An example of 'train' looks as follows.

This example was too long and was cropped:

{
    "translation": "{\"da\": \". “A felirat faragott karnis a bejárat fölött, templom épült 14 Július 1643, A földesúr és felesége Jeremiás Murguleţ, C..."
}

ende

• Size of downloaded dataset files: 1.31 GB
• Size of the generated dataset: 4.00 GB
• Total amount of disk used: 5.30 GB

An example of 'train' looks as follows.

This example was too long and was cropped:

{
    "translation": "{\"de\": \". “A felirat faragott karnis a bejárat fölött, templom épült 14 Július 1643, A földesúr és felesége Jeremiás Murguleţ, C..."
}

enel

• Size of downloaded dataset files: 193.56 MB
• Size of the generated dataset: 688.07 MB
• Total amount of disk used: 881.62 MB

An example of 'train' looks as follows.

This example was too long and was cropped:

{
    "translation": "{\"el\": \". “A felirat faragott karnis a bejárat fölött, templom épült 14 Július 1643, A földesúr és felesége Jeremiás Murguleţ, C..."
}

Data Fields

The data fields are the same among all splits.

enbg

• translation: a multilingual string variable, with possible languages including en, bg.

encs

• translation: a multilingual string variable, with possible languages including en, cs.

enda

• translation: a multilingual string variable, with possible languages including en, da.

ende

• translation: a multilingual string variable, with possible languages including en, de.

enel

• translation: a multilingual string variable, with possible languages including en, el.

Data Splits

name	train
enbg	1039885
encs	2981949
enda	2414895
ende	16264448
enel	1985233

Dataset Creation

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Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

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Who are the source language producers?

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Annotations

Annotation process

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Who are the annotators?

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Personal and Sensitive Information

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Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

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Licensing Information

Creative Commons CC0 license ("no rights reserved").

Citation Information

@inproceedings{banon-etal-2020-paracrawl,
    title = "{P}ara{C}rawl: Web-Scale Acquisition of Parallel Corpora",
    author = "Ba{\~n}{\'o}n, Marta  and
      Chen, Pinzhen  and
      Haddow, Barry  and
      Heafield, Kenneth  and
      Hoang, Hieu  and
      Espl{\`a}-Gomis, Miquel  and
      Forcada, Mikel L.  and
      Kamran, Amir  and
      Kirefu, Faheem  and
      Koehn, Philipp  and
      Ortiz Rojas, Sergio  and
      Pla Sempere, Leopoldo  and
      Ram{\'\i}rez-S{\'a}nchez, Gema  and
      Sarr{\'\i}as, Elsa  and
      Strelec, Marek  and
      Thompson, Brian  and
      Waites, William  and
      Wiggins, Dion  and
      Zaragoza, Jaume",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
    month = jul,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.417",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.417",
    pages = "4555--4567",
    abstract = "We report on methods to create the largest publicly available parallel corpora by crawling the web, using open source software. We empirically compare alternative methods and publish benchmark data sets for sentence alignment and sentence pair filtering. We also describe the parallel corpora released and evaluate their quality and their usefulness to create machine translation systems.",
}

Contributions

Thanks to @thomwolf, @lewtun, @patrickvonplaten, @mariamabarham for adding this dataset.