README.md

metadata

annotations_creators:
  - no-annotation
language_creators:
  - found
language:
  - en
  - as
  - bn
  - gu
  - hi
  - kn
  - ml
  - mr
  - or
  - pa
  - ta
  - te
license:
  - cc-by-nc-4.0
multilinguality:
  - translation
size_categories:
  - unknown
source_datasets:
  - original
task_categories:
  - text-generation
  - translation
task_ids: []
pretty_name: Samanantar
tags:
  - conditional-text-generation

Dataset Card for Samanantar

Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• Dataset Description
  • Dataset Summary
  • Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
  • Languages
• Dataset Structure
  • Data Instances
  • Data Fields
  • Data Splits
• Dataset Creation
  • Curation Rationale
  • Source Data
  • Annotations
  • Personal and Sensitive Information
• Considerations for Using the Data
  • Social Impact of Dataset
  • Discussion of Biases
  • Other Known Limitations
• Additional Information
  • Dataset Curators
  • Licensing Information
  • Citation Information
  • Contributions

Dataset Description

• Homepage: https://indicnlp.ai4bharat.org/samanantar/
• Repository:
• Paper: Samanantar: The Largest Publicly Available Parallel Corpora Collection for 11 Indic Languages
• Leaderboard:
• Point of Contact:

Dataset Summary

Samanantar is the largest publicly available parallel corpora collection for Indic language: Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu.

The corpus has 49.6M sentence pairs between English to Indian Languages.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

[More Information Needed]

Languages

Samanantar contains parallel sentences between English (en) and 11 Indic language:

• Assamese (as),
• Bengali (bn),
• Gujarati (gu),
• Hindi (hi),
• Kannada (kn),
• Malayalam (ml),
• Marathi (mr),
• Odia (or),
• Punjabi (pa),
• Tamil (ta) and
• Telugu (te).

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

{
  'idx': 0,
  'src': 'Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Her Majesty Queen Maxima of the Kingdom of the Netherlands today.',
  'tgt': 'নতুন দিল্লিতে সোমবার প্রধানমন্ত্রী শ্রী নরেন্দ্র মোদীর সঙ্গে নেদারন্যান্ডসের মহারানী ম্যাক্সিমা সাক্ষাৎ করেন।',
  'data_source': 'pmi'
}

Data Fields

• idx (int): ID.
• src (string): Sentence in source language (English).
• tgt (string): Sentence in destination language (one of the 11 Indic languages).
• data_source (string): Source of the data. For created data sources, depending on the destination language, it might be one of:
  • anuvaad_catchnews
  • anuvaad_DD_National
  • anuvaad_DD_sports
  • anuvaad_drivespark
  • anuvaad_dw
  • anuvaad_financialexpress
  • anuvaad-general_corpus
  • anuvaad_goodreturns
  • anuvaad_indianexpress
  • anuvaad_mykhel
  • anuvaad_nativeplanet
  • anuvaad_newsonair
  • anuvaad_nouns_dictionary
  • anuvaad_ocr
  • anuvaad_oneindia
  • anuvaad_pib
  • anuvaad_pib_archives
  • anuvaad_prothomalo
  • anuvaad_timesofindia
  • asianetnews
  • betterindia
  • bridge
  • business_standard
  • catchnews
  • coursera
  • dd_national
  • dd_sports
  • dwnews
  • drivespark
  • fin_express
  • goodreturns
  • gu_govt
  • jagran-business
  • jagran-education
  • jagran-sports
  • ie_business
  • ie_education
  • ie_entertainment
  • ie_general
  • ie_lifestyle
  • ie_news
  • ie_sports
  • ie_tech
  • indiccorp
  • jagran-entertainment
  • jagran-lifestyle
  • jagran-news
  • jagran-tech
  • khan_academy
  • Kurzgesagt
  • marketfeed
  • mykhel
  • nativeplanet
  • nptel
  • ocr
  • oneindia
  • pa_govt
  • pmi
  • pranabmukherjee
  • sakshi
  • sentinel
  • thewire
  • toi
  • tribune
  • vsauce
  • wikipedia
  • zeebiz

Data Splits

[More Information Needed]

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

[More Information Needed]

Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

[More Information Needed]

Who are the source language producers?

[More Information Needed]

Annotations

Annotation process

[More Information Needed]

Who are the annotators?

[More Information Needed]

Personal and Sensitive Information

[More Information Needed]

Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

[More Information Needed]

Discussion of Biases

[More Information Needed]

Other Known Limitations

[More Information Needed]

Additional Information

Dataset Curators

[More Information Needed]

Licensing Information

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.

Citation Information

@misc{ramesh2021samanantar,
      title={Samanantar: The Largest Publicly Available Parallel Corpora Collection for 11 Indic Languages},
      author={Gowtham Ramesh and Sumanth Doddapaneni and Aravinth Bheemaraj and Mayank Jobanputra and Raghavan AK and Ajitesh Sharma and Sujit Sahoo and Harshita Diddee and Mahalakshmi J and Divyanshu Kakwani and Navneet Kumar and Aswin Pradeep and Srihari Nagaraj and Kumar Deepak and Vivek Raghavan and Anoop Kunchukuttan and Pratyush Kumar and Mitesh Shantadevi Khapra},
      year={2021},
      eprint={2104.05596},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}

Contributions

Thanks to @albertvillanova for adding this dataset.