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Multilingual information access is stipulated in the South African constitution. In practise, this
is hampered by a lack of resources and capacity to perform the large volumes of translation
work required to realise multilingual information access. One of the aims of the Autshumato
project is to develop machine translation systems for three South African languages pairs.
@article{groenewald2010processing,
  title={Processing parallel text corpora for three South African language pairs in the Autshumato project},
  author={Groenewald, Hendrik J and du Plooy, Liza},
  journal={AfLaT 2010},
  pages={27},
  year={2010}
}
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---

# Dataset Card for autshumato

## Table of Contents
- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
  - [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
  - [Supported Tasks and Leaderboards](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
  - [Languages](#languages)
- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
  - [Data Instances](#data-instances)
  - [Data Fields](#data-fields)
  - [Data Splits](#data-splits)
- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)
  - [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale)
  - [Source Data](#source-data)
  - [Annotations](#annotations)
  - [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information)
- [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data)
  - [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset)
  - [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases)
  - [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations)
- [Additional Information](#additional-information)
  - [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators)
  - [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)
  - [Citation Information](#citation-information)
  - [Contributions](#contributions)

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage:** [https://repo.sadilar.org/handle/20.500.12185/7/discover]()
- **Repository:** []()
- **Paper:** []()
- **Leaderboard:** []()
- **Point of Contact:** []()

### Dataset Summary

Multilingual information access is stipulated in the South African constitution. In practise, this
is hampered by a lack of resources and capacity to perform the large volumes of translation
work required to realise multilingual information access. One of the aims of the Autshumato
project is to develop machine translation systems for three South African languages pairs.

### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

[More Information Needed]

### Languages

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## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

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### Data Fields

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### Data Splits

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## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

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### Source Data

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#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

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#### Who are the source language producers?

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### Annotations

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#### Annotation process

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#### Who are the annotators?

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### Personal and Sensitive Information

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## Considerations for Using the Data

### Social Impact of Dataset

[More Information Needed]

### Discussion of Biases

[More Information Needed]

### Other Known Limitations

[More Information Needed]

## Additional Information

[More Information Needed]

### Dataset Curators

[More Information Needed]

### Licensing Information


### Citation Information

```
@article{groenewald2010processing,
  title={Processing parallel text corpora for three South African language pairs in the Autshumato project},
  author={Groenewald, Hendrik J and du Plooy, Liza},
  journal={AfLaT 2010},
  pages={27},
  year={2010}
}
```

### Contributions

Thanks to [@Narsil](https://github.com/Narsil) for adding this dataset.