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---

# Dataset Card for CAPES

## 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:** [Parallel corpus of theses and dissertation abstracts in Portuguese and English from CAPES](https://sites.google.com/view/felipe-soares/datasets)
- **Repository:**
- **Paper:** [A Parallel Corpus of Theses and Dissertations Abstracts](https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.01715)
- **Leaderboard:**
- **Point of Contact:**

### Dataset Summary

A parallel corpus of theses and dissertations abstracts in English and Portuguese were collected from the
CAPES website (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior) - Brazil.
The corpus is sentence aligned for all language pairs. Approximately 240,000 documents were
collected and aligned using the Hunalign algorithm.

### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

The underlying task is machine translation.

### Languages

[More Information Needed]

## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

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### Data Fields

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### 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?

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### 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

[More Information Needed]

### Citation Information

```
@inproceedings{soares2018parallel,
  title={A Parallel Corpus of Theses and Dissertations Abstracts},
  author={Soares, Felipe and Yamashita, Gabrielli Harumi and Anzanello, Michel Jose},
  booktitle={International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language},
  pages={345--352},
  year={2018},
  organization={Springer}
}
```
### Contributions

Thanks to [@patil-suraj](https://github.com/patil-suraj) for adding this dataset.