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# Dataset Card for Parallel Sentences - News Commentary

This dataset contains parallel sentences (i.e. English sentence + the same sentences in another language) for numerous other languages. Most of the sentences originate from the [OPUS website](https://opus.nlpl.eu/).
In particular, this dataset contains the [News-Commentary](https://opus.nlpl.eu/News-Commentary/corpus/version/News-Commentary) dataset.

## Related Datasets

The following datasets are also a part of the Parallel Sentences collection:
* [parallel-sentences-europarl](https://huggingface.co/datasets/sentence-transformers/parallel-sentences-europarl)
* [parallel-sentences-global-voices](https://huggingface.co/datasets/sentence-transformers/parallel-sentences-global-voices)
* [parallel-sentences-muse](https://huggingface.co/datasets/sentence-transformers/parallel-sentences-muse)
* [parallel-sentences-jw300](https://huggingface.co/datasets/sentence-transformers/parallel-sentences-jw300)
* [parallel-sentences-news-commentary](https://huggingface.co/datasets/sentence-transformers/parallel-sentences-news-commentary)
* [parallel-sentences-opensubtitles](https://huggingface.co/datasets/sentence-transformers/parallel-sentences-opensubtitles)
* [parallel-sentences-talks](https://huggingface.co/datasets/sentence-transformers/parallel-sentences-talks)
* [parallel-sentences-tatoeba](https://huggingface.co/datasets/sentence-transformers/parallel-sentences-tatoeba)
* [parallel-sentences-wikimatrix](https://huggingface.co/datasets/sentence-transformers/parallel-sentences-wikimatrix)
* [parallel-sentences-wikititles](https://huggingface.co/datasets/sentence-transformers/parallel-sentences-wikititles)
* [parallel-sentences-ccmatrix](https://huggingface.co/datasets/sentence-transformers/parallel-sentences-ccmatrix)

These datasets can be used to train multilingual sentence embedding models. For more information, see [sbert.net - Multilingual Models](https://www.sbert.net/examples/training/multilingual/README.html).

## Dataset Subsets

### `all` subset

* Columns: "english", "non_english"
* Column types: `str`, `str`
* Examples:
    ```python
    {
      "english": "Pure interests – expressed through lobbying power – were undoubtedly important to several key deregulation measures in the US, whose political system and campaign-finance rules are peculiarly conducive to the power of specific lobbies.",
      "non_english": "Заинтересованные группы, действующие посредством лоббирования власти, явились важными действующими лицами при принятии нескольких ключевых мер по отмене регулирующих норм в США, чья политическая система и правила финансирования кампаний особенно поддаются власти отдельных лобби."
    }
    ```
* Collection strategy: Combining all other subsets from this dataset.
* Deduplified: No

### `en-...` subsets

* Columns: "english", "non_english"
* Column types: `str`, `str`
* Examples:
    ```python
    {
      "english": "Last December, many gold bugs were arguing that the price was inevitably headed for $2,000.",
      "non_english": "Lo scorso dicembre, molti fanatici dell’oro sostenevano che il suo prezzo era inevitabilmente destinato a raggiungere i 2000 dollari."
    }
    ```
* Collection strategy: Processing the raw data from [parallel-sentences](https://huggingface.co/datasets/sentence-transformers/parallel-sentences) and formatting it in Parquet, followed by deduplication.
* Deduplified: Yes