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BabyLM Dataset

This download includes LM Pretraining data for the 2023 CoNLL/CMCL shared task, The BabyLM Challenge. The (unzipped) data is not large, only ~700MB.

Note that there is also a multi-lingual version of this dataset, that is availabled under the multi-lingual branch of the dataset repository.

Contents of this download

  • 10M: 10M-word training set for the strict-small track.
  • dev: Development set for both tracks (10M words)
  • test: Test set for both tracks (10M words)

Each directory above contains a single .txt file from each of the 10 domains listed below.

Composition of the data

All datasets are sampled from a mixture of 10 data domains, shown below, along with their respective weights in the distributed dataset.

Source Weight Domain Citation Website License
OpenSubtitles 30% Dialogue, Scripted Lison & Tiedermann (2016) link Open source
Simple English Wikipedia 15% Nonfiction -- link link
BNC 10% Dialogue BNC Consortium (2007) link link 1
Project Gutenberg 10% Fiction, Nonfiction Gerlach & Font-Clos (2020) link link
QED 10% Dialogue, Education Abdelali et al. (2014) link link
Wikipedia 10% Nonfiction -- link link
Children's Book Test 6% Fiction, Child-Directed Hill et al. (2016) link Public domain
CHILDES 4% Dialogue, Child-Directed MacWhinney (2000) link
Children's Stories 4% Fiction, Child-Directed -- link Public domain
Switchboard 1% Dialogue Godfrey et al. (1992), Stolcke et al., (2000) link link

1 Our distribution of part of the BNC Texts is permitted under the fair dealings provision of copyright law (see term (2g) in the BNC license).

Data preprocessing

Data was minimally preprocessed to conform to a plain text format. We did not tokenize the data. Documents are not necessarily complete are newline separated.

For documentation of the preprocessing pipeline, consult the following repo: https://github.com/babylm/babylm_data_preprocessing

References

Abdelali, A., Guzman, F., Sajjad, H., & Vogel, S. (2014). The AMARA Corpus: Building parallel language resources for the educational domain. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2014). 1856-1862.

BNC Consortium. (2007). The British National Corpus, XML Edition. Oxford Text Archive, http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/2554.

Gerlach, M., & Font-Clos, F. (2020). A standardized Project Gutenberg corpus for statistical analysis of natural language and quantitative linguistics. Entropy, 22(1), 126.

Godfrey, J. J., Holliman, E. C., & McDaniel, J. (1992). SWITCHBOARD: Telephone speech corpus for research and development. In Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, IEEE International Conference on (Vol. 1, pp. 517-520). IEEE Computer Society.

Hill, F., Bordes, A., Chopra, S., Weston, J. (2016). The Goldilocks principle: Reading children’s books with explicit memory representations. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2016).

Lison, P. & Tiedemann, J. (2016). OpenSubtitles2016: Extracting Large Parallel Corpora from Movie and TV Subtitles. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016).

MacWhinney, B. (2000). The CHILDES Project: Tools for analyzing talk. Third Edition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Stolcke, A., Ries, K., Coccaro, N., Shriberg, E., Bates, R., Jurafsky, D., Taylor, P., Martin, R., Van Ess-Dykema, C., & Meteer, M. (2000). Dialogue act modeling for automatic tagging and recognition of conversational speech. Computational linguistics, 26(3), 339-373.

Tiedemann, J. (2012). Parallel Data, Tools and Interfaces in OPUS. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012).

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