Datasets:

Ruth-Ann
/

jampatoisnli

	---
	annotations_creators:
	- expert-generated
	language:
	- jam
	language_creators:
	- expert-generated
	- found
	license:
	- other
	multilinguality:
	- monolingual
	- other-english-based-creole
	pretty_name: JamPatoisNLI
	size_categories:
	- n<1K
	source_datasets:
	- original
	tags:
	- creole
	- low-resource-language
	task_categories:
	- text-classification
	task_ids:
	- natural-language-inference
	---

	# Dataset Card for [Dataset Name]

	## Table of Contents
	- [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents)
	- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
	- [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
	- [Supported Tasks and Leaderboards](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
	- [Languages](#languages)
	- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
	- [Data Instances](#data-instances)
	- [Data Fields](#data-fields)
	- [Data Splits](#data-splits)
	- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)
	- [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale)
	- [Source Data](#source-data)
	- [Annotations](#annotations)
	- [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information)
	- [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data)
	- [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset)
	- [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases)
	- [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations)
	- [Additional Information](#additional-information)
	- [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators)
	- [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)
	- [Citation Information](#citation-information)
	- [Contributions](#contributions)

	## Dataset Description

	- Homepage:
	- jampatoisnli.github.io
	- Repository:
	- https://github.com/ruth-ann/jampatoisnli
	- Paper:
	- https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.03419
	- Point of Contact:
	- Ruth-Ann Armsrong: armstrongruthanna@gmail.com

	### Dataset Summary

	JamPatoisNLI provides the first dataset for natural language inference in a creole language, Jamaican Patois.
	Many of the most-spoken low-resource languages are creoles. These languages commonly have a lexicon derived from
	a major world language and a distinctive grammar reflecting the languages of the original speakers and the process
	of language birth by creolization. This gives them a distinctive place in exploring the effectiveness of transfer
	from large monolingual or multilingual pretrained models.

	### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

	Natural language inference

	### Languages

	Jamaican Patois

	### Data Fields

	premise, hypothesis, label

	### Data Splits

	Train: 250
	Val: 200
	Test: 200


	### Data set creation + Annotations

	Premise collection:
	97% of examples from Twitter; remaining pulled from literature and online cultural website

	Hypothesis construction:
	For each premise, hypothesis written by native speaker (our first author) so that pair’s classification would be E, N or C

	Label validation:
	Random sample of 100 sentence pairs double annotated by fluent speakers


	### Social Impact of Dataset

	JamPatoisNLI is a low-resource language dataset in an English-based Creole spoken in the Caribbean,
	Jamaican Patois. The creation of the dataset contributes to expanding the scope of NLP research
	to under-explored languages across the world.


	### Dataset Curators

	[@ruth-ann](https://github.com/ruth-ann)


	### Citation Information

	@misc{https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2212.03419,
	doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2212.03419},

	url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.03419},

	author = {Armstrong, Ruth-Ann and Hewitt, John and Manning, Christopher},

	keywords = {Computation and Language (cs.CL), Machine Learning (cs.LG), FOS: Computer and information sciences, FOS: Computer and information sciences, I.2.7},

	title = {JamPatoisNLI: A Jamaican Patois Natural Language Inference Dataset},

	publisher = {arXiv},

	year = {2022},

	copyright = {arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license}
	}

	### Contributions

	Thanks to Prof. Christopher Manning and John Hewitt for their contributions, guidance, facilitation and support related to the creation of this dataset.