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MorisienMT is a dataset for Mauritian Creole Machine Translation. 
This dataset consists of training, development and test set splits for English--Creole as well as French--Creole translation.

The development and test sets consist of 500 and 1000 sentences respectively. Both evaluation sets are trilingual.

The training set for English--Creole contains 21,810 lines.
The training set for French--Creole contains 15,239 lines.
Additionally, we extract a trilingual English-French-Creole training set of 13,861 lines.

Finally, we also provide a Creole monolingual corpus of 45,364 lines.

Note that a significant portion of the dataset is a dictionary of word pairs/triplets, nevertheless it is a start.

Feel free to use the dataset for your research but don't forget to attribute our upcoming paper which will be uploaded to arxiv shortly.

Note: MorisienMT was originally partly developed by Dr Aneerav Sukhoo from the University of Mauritius in 2014 when he was a visiting researcher in IIT Bombay. 
Dr Sukhoo and I worked on the MT experiments together, but never publicly released the dataset back then. 
Furthermore, the dataset splits and experiments were not done in a highly principled manner, which is required in the present day. 
Therefore, we improve the quality of splits and officially release the data for people to use.