---
language:
- en
- fa
viewer: false
license: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
task_categories:
- translation
tags:
- bitext
- translation
- parallel data
pretty_name: Esposito
---
# <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Esposito</span>: An English-Persian Scientific Parallel Corpus for Machine Translation

<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Esposito</span> contains 3.5~million parallel sentences in the scientific domain for 
English-Persian language pair. In addition, we present a manually validated scientific test set that might serve as a baseline 
for future studies.


## Dataset Details

### Dataset Description

- **Curated by:** [Mersad Esalati](mailto:mersad.esalati@ut.ac.ir), [Mohammad Javad Dousti](mailto:mjdousti@ut.ac.ir), and [Hesham Faili](mailto:hfaili@ut.ac.ir)
- **Language(s):** English and Persian
- **License:** [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) (non-commercial use only.)

### Dataset Source

- **Repository:** [Scientific Information Database](https://www.sid.ir/)

## Uses

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## Dataset Structure

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## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

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### Source Data

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#### Data Collection and Processing

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## Citation

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