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- translation |
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- text-classification |
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- zh |
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license: cc-by-sa-4.0 |
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--- |
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# Cantonese-Mandarin-Traditional Chinese Parallel Corpus |
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This dataset provides a parallel corpus of Cantonese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese text. |
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## Dataset Composition |
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The dataset is a combination of two existing datasets: |
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1. [botisan-ai/cantonese-mandarin-translations](https://huggingface.co/datasets/botisan-ai/cantonese-mandarin-translations) |
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2. [raptorkwok/cantonese-chinese-dataset-gen2](https://huggingface.co/datasets/raptorkwok/cantonese-chinese-dataset-gen2) |
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**Train Set:** Merged from both source datasets |
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**Test and Validation Sets:** Derived from raptorkwok/cantonese-chinese-dataset-gen2 |
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## Language Variants |
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The dataset contains three language variants: |
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1. **yue:** Spoken Cantonese (Yue) rendered into words |
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2. **zh:** Simplified Chinese |
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3. **zht:** Traditional Chinese as written in Hong Kong |
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## Conversion Process |
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The conversion from Simplified Chinese to Traditional Chinese was performed using [StarCC](https://github.com/StarCC0/spec). |
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## Data Format |
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The dataset is structured in JSON format, with each entry containing parallel text in the three language variants. Example entry: |
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```json |
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{ |
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"yue": "講唔到重點而且唔夠全面", |
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"zh": "说不了重点而且不够全面", |
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"zht": "說不了重點而且不夠全面" |
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} |
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``` |
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## Use Cases |
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This dataset can be valuable for various natural language processing tasks, including: |
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- Machine translation between Cantonese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese |
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- Comparative linguistic studies of Chinese language variants |
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- Development of multilingual Chinese language models |
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## Limitations |
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Users should be aware that automatic conversion between Simplified and Traditional Chinese, while generally reliable, may not always capture differences in vocabulary and idioms between regions using different writing systems. |
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## Licence and Acknowledgements |
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Contains data from |
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- "botisan-ai/cantonese-mandarin-translations" by Liang, H., https://huggingface.co/datasets/botisan-ai/cantonese-mandarin-translations, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0). |
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- "raptorkwok/cantonese-chinese-dataset-gen2" by Raptor K, available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/raptorkwok/cantonese-chinese-dataset-gen2, licensed under CC0. |
