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Vietnamese Tuberculosis Guideline Corpus

Dataset Summary

The Vietnamese Tuberculosis Guideline Corpus is a provenance-aware research corpus built from 19 authoritative tuberculosis-related source documents: five documents issued or coordinated by the Ministry of Health of Viet Nam and the National Tuberculosis Programme, and 14 World Health Organization (WHO) consolidated guidelines and operational handbooks.

The source collection covers 3,347 PDF pages. The WHO component contains 4,276 source-aligned English-Vietnamese translation units generated with Google TranslateGemma-27B. The corpus preserves page-level provenance, source checksums, document authority, version information, and separate handling for tables, figures, and clinical algorithms.

This repository is a research resource. It is not an official WHO translation, is not validated for clinical decision-making, and must not be used as a substitute for professional medical advice or the authentic source guidelines.

Tóm tắt tiếng Việt

Đây là corpus nghiên cứu bệnh lao có provenance, gồm 5 tài liệu Việt Nam và 14 tài liệu WHO. Khối WHO có 4.276 đơn vị Anh–Việt được tạo bằng TranslateGemma-27B. Đây không phải bản dịch chính thức, chưa được xác nhận để sử dụng lâm sàng và không được dùng thay cho hướng dẫn nguồn hoặc quyết định chuyên môn của nhân viên y tế.

Dataset Snapshot

Component	Documents	Source pages	Records
Viet Nam collection	5	564	Source metadata in the initial public release
WHO collection	14	2,783	4,276 aligned translation units
WHO text units	—	—	3,984
WHO visual or structured units	—	289 affected pages	292
Candidate terminology glossary	—	—	26 terms
Total source collection	19	3,347	—

Twenty visual or structured records contain third-party-rights signals. These records are restricted to metadata and source links; the corresponding visual assets are not redistributed.

Source Coverage

Viet Nam Ministry of Health and National Tuberculosis Programme

National Tuberculosis Programme annual activity report, 2023.
Decision 162/QD-BYT: guidance on tuberculosis diagnosis, treatment, and prevention, 2024.
Decision 2627/QD-BYT: guidance on active tuberculosis and tuberculosis-infection case finding in communities and health facilities, 2024.
Decision 579/QD-BYT: guidance on tuberculosis infection prevention and control in health facilities and communities, 2024.
Training material on tuberculosis infection prevention and control in health facilities, 2025.

The initial distributable package contains metadata for these documents. Extracted full text must not be made public until the redistribution basis for each source has been reviewed and documented.

World Health Organization

The WHO collection contains a consolidated guideline and/or operational handbook covering:

tuberculosis infection prevention and control;
tuberculosis preventive treatment;
systematic screening for tuberculosis disease;
tuberculosis diagnosis;
tuberculosis treatment and care;
management of tuberculosis in children and adolescents; and
tuberculosis and comorbidities.

Planned Dataset Configurations

source_metadata: metadata for all 19 source documents.
vn_moh_metadata: metadata for the five Vietnamese source documents.
who_en_vi_text: 3,984 English-Vietnamese text units.
who_visual_metadata: metadata for 292 visual or structured units.
glossary: 26 English-Vietnamese terminology candidates.

The benchmark and frozen evaluation labels will be maintained separately to reduce accidental train-test contamination.

Core Data Fields

WHO text units

Field	Description
`unit_id`	Stable source-aligned unit identifier
`source_id`	Stable source-document identifier
`page`	One-based PDF page number
`source_en`	English source segment
`target_vi`	Vietnamese translation candidate
`model_id`	Translation-model identifier

Visual metadata

Field	Description
`unit_id`	Stable unit identifier
`source_id`	Source-document identifier
`page`	One-based PDF page number
`structure_kind`	Table, figure, diagram, poster, or algorithm
`source_license`	Source-specific licence
`public_decision`	Asset redistribution decision
`retrieval_mode`	Required retrieval route
`text_only_answering_permitted`	Whether flattened text is sufficient
`distributed_asset`	Whether the associated visual asset is distributed

Data Creation Process

Authoritative PDF sources
        ↓
Page-level text and layout extraction
        ↓
Normalization with immutable provenance
        ↓
Source-aligned unit segmentation
        ↓
Machine translation with TranslateGemma-27B
        ↓
Text/visual routing and rights controls
        ↓
Research dataset release

The public files omit unit-level review, quality-control, and clinical workflow fields. Those records remain in the internal data store. The authentic English source remains the controlling reference whenever discrepancies are identified.

Intended Uses

This dataset is intended for non-commercial research involving:

English-Vietnamese medical translation;
bilingual alignment and translation-error analysis;
medical terminology consistency;
sparse, dense, and hybrid information retrieval;
retrieval-augmented generation and Agentic-RAG;
evidence grounding and citation verification; and
safety evaluation of medical natural-language-processing systems.

Out-of-Scope Uses

The dataset is not intended for:

autonomous diagnosis, treatment, prescribing, or emergency triage;
replacement of qualified healthcare professionals;
presentation as an official WHO or Ministry of Health translation;
use of this research resource as clinically validated gold-standard data;
commercial reuse inconsistent with source-specific licence terms;
redistribution of excluded PDFs, page images, or third-party visuals; or
evaluation or profiling of individual patients or clinicians.

Access and Release Scope

The repository page is public, while access to dataset files is gated and manually approved. The public schema intentionally excludes unit-level quality-control, review, and clinical workflow fields. More detailed operational records are retained internally and are not part of this distribution.

Limitations

Vietnamese translations were initially produced by a machine-translation model.
The dataset is not validated for clinical use.
Flattened text cannot faithfully represent every table, figure, or clinical algorithm.
The collection does not represent all tuberculosis practice settings or all Vietnamese clinical policy.
WHO and national guidelines may be revised after this corpus snapshot.
Source documents can contain materials credited to third parties and subject to separate permissions.
This corpus contains no patient records and no personal health information.

Licensing and Attribution

This repository uses mixed, source-specific terms. WHO source publications are governed by the licence stated in each original publication, currently recorded as CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO for the 14 WHO documents in this corpus. Project-created translations and adaptations must follow the same or similar non-commercial share-alike terms permitted by WHO. Ministry of Health extracted full text is not included in the initial public release unless its redistribution basis is documented.

The dataset does not reproduce the WHO logo and must not imply WHO endorsement.

Required translation notice:

This translation was not created by the World Health Organization (WHO). WHO is not responsible for the content or accuracy of this translation.

For every WHO document, the English edition identified in source_metadata is the binding and authentic source. See LICENSE_AND_RIGHTS.md before redistribution.

Citation

No formal paper citation or DOI has been assigned. Cite the dataset repository, version tag, access date, and the original source publications listed in source_metadata.

A formal CITATION.cff will be added after the project authors, institutional affiliation, release version, and preferred citation have been confirmed.

Versioning and Maintenance

v0.1-private-staging: internal schema, rights, security, and integrity validation.
v0.2-research-gated: gated research release with a minimal public schema.

Earlier tagged releases will not be overwritten. Corrections will be recorded by unit identifier and checksum in a release changelog.

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