Datasets:
language:
- ca
- de
multilinguality:
- multilingual
pretty_name: CA-DE Parallel Corpus
size_categories:
- 1M<n<10M
task_categories:
- translation
task_ids: []
license: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
Dataset Card for CA-DE Parallel Corpus
Dataset Description
- Point of Contact: langtech@bsc.es
Dataset Summary
The CA-DE Parallel Corpus is a Catalan-German dataset of parallel sentences created to support Catalan in NLP tasks, specifically Machine Translation.
Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
The dataset can be used to train Bilingual Machine Translation models between German and Catalan in any direction, as well as Multilingual Machine Translation models.
Languages
The sentences included in the dataset are in Catalan (CA) and German (DE).
Dataset Structure
Data Instances
Two separate txt files are provided with the sentences sorted in the same order:
ca-de_all_2023_09_11.ca
ca-de_all_2023_09_11.de
The dataset is additionally provided in parquet format: ca-de_all_2023_09_11.parquet.
The parquet file contains two columns of parallel text obtained from the two original text files. Each row in the file represents a pair of parallel sentences in the two languages of the dataset.
Data Fields
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Data Splits
The dataset contains a single split: train.
Dataset Creation
Curation Rationale
This dataset is aimed at promoting the development of Machine Translation between Catalan and other languages, specifically German.
Source Data
Initial Data Collection and Normalization
The first portion of the corpus is a combination of the following original datasets collected from Opus: MultiCCAligned, WikiMatrix, GNOME, KDE4, OpenSubtitles, GlobalVoices, Tatoeba.
Additionally, the corpus contains synthetic parallel data generated from the original Spanish-Catalan Europarl and Tilde corpora made public by SoftCatalà.
A last portion of the dataset is composed by synthetic parallel data generated from a random sampling of the Spanish-German corpora available on Opus and translated into Catalan using the PlanTL es-ca model.
All datasets are deduplicated and filtered to remove any sentence pairs with a cosine similarity of less than 0.75. This is done using sentence embeddings calculated using LaBSE. The filtered datasets are then concatenated to form the final corpus.
Who are the source language producers?
Annotations
Annotation process
The dataset does not contain any annotations.
Who are the annotators?
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Personal and Sensitive Information
Given that this dataset is partly derived from pre-existing datasets that may contain crawled data, and that no specific anonymisation process has been applied, personal and sensitive information may be present in the data. This needs to be considered when using the data for training models.
Considerations for Using the Data
Social Impact of Dataset
By providing this resource, we intend to promote the use of Catalan across NLP tasks, thereby improving the accessibility and visibility of the Catalan language.
Discussion of Biases
No specific bias mitigation strategies were applied to this dataset. Inherent biases may exist within the data.
Other Known Limitations
The dataset contains data of a general domain. Application of this dataset in more specific domains such as biomedical, legal etc. would be of limited use.
Additional Information
Dataset Curators
Language Technologies Unit at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (langtech@bsc.es).
This work has been promoted and financed by the Generalitat de Catalunya through the Aina project.
Licensing Information
This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International.
Citation Information
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Contributions
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