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---
# Dataset Card for Samanantar
## 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:** https://indicnlp.ai4bharat.org/samanantar/
- **Repository:**
- **Paper:** [Samanantar: The Largest Publicly Available Parallel Corpora Collection for 11 Indic Languages](https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05596)
- **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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
### 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](https://github.com/albertvillanova) for adding this dataset.