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task_categories: |
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- translation |
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- text-generation |
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language: |
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- bm |
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- fr |
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size_categories: |
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- 10K<n<100K |
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# BAYƐLƐMABAGA: Parallel French - Bambara Dataset for Machine Learning |
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## Overview |
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The Bayelemabaga dataset is a collection of 46976 aligned machine translation ready Bambara-French lines, originating from [Corpus Bambara de Reference](http://cormande.huma-num.fr/corbama/run.cgi/first_form). The dataset is constitued of text extracted from **264** text files, varing from periodicals, books, short stories, blog posts, part of the Bible and the Quran. |
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## Snapshot: 46976 |
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| **Lines** | **46976** | |
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| French Tokens (spacy) | 691312 | |
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| Bambara Tokens (daba) | 660732 | |
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| French Types | 32018 | |
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| Bambara Types | 29382 | |
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| Avg. Fr line length | 77.6 | |
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| Avg. Bam line length | 61.69 | |
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| Number of text sources | 264 | |
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## Data Splits |
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| Train | 80% | 37580 | |
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| Valid | 10% | 4698 | |
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| Test | 10% | 4698 | |
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## Remarks |
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* We are working on resolving some last minute misalignment issues. |
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### Maintenance |
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* This dataset is supposed to be actively maintained. |
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### Benchmarks: |
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- `Coming soon` |
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### Sources |
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- [`sources`](./bayelemabaga/sources.txt) |
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### To note: |
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- ʃ => (sh/shy) sound: Symbol left in the dataset, although not a part of bambara orthography nor French orthography. |
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## License |
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- `CC-BY-SA-4.0` |
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## Version |
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- `1.0.1` |
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## Citation |
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``` |
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@misc{bayelemabagamldataset2022 |
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title={Machine Learning Dataset Development for Manding Languages}, |
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author={ |
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Valentin Vydrin and |
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Jean-Jacques Meric and |
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Kirill Maslinsky and |
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Andrij Rovenchak and |
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Allahsera Auguste Tapo and |
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Sebastien Diarra and |
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Christopher Homan and |
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Marco Zampieri and |
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Michael Leventhal |
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}, |
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howpublished = {url{https://github.com/robotsmali-ai/datasets}}, |
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year={2022} |
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} |
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``` |
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## Contacts |
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- `sdiarra <at> robotsmali <dot> org` |
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- `aat3261 <at> rit <dot> edu` |
