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In response to the on-going crisis, several academic (Carnegie Mellon University, 
George Mason University, Johns Hopkins University) and industry (Amazon, Appen, 
Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Translated) partners have partnered with the Translators 
without Borders to prepare COVID-19 materials for a variety of the world’s languages 
to be used by professional translators and for training state-of-the-art Machine 
Translation (MT) models. The focus is on making emergency and crisis-related content 
available in as many languages as possible. The collected, curated and translated 
content across nearly 90 languages will be available to the professional translation 
as well the MT research community.
@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2007-01788,
  author    = {Antonios Anastasopoulos and
               Alessandro Cattelan and
               Zi{-}Yi Dou and
               Marcello Federico and
               Christian Federmann and
               Dmitriy Genzel and
               Francisco Guzm{\'{a}}n and
               Junjie Hu and
               Macduff Hughes and
               Philipp Koehn and
               Rosie Lazar and
               William Lewis and
               Graham Neubig and
               Mengmeng Niu and
               Alp {\"{O}}ktem and
               Eric Paquin and
               Grace Tang and
               Sylwia Tur},
  title     = {{TICO-19:} the Translation Initiative for Covid-19},
  journal   = {CoRR},
  volume    = {abs/2007.01788},
  year      = {2020},
  url       = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01788},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  eprint    = {2007.01788},
  timestamp = {Thu, 08 Apr 2021 11:46:39 +0200},
  biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/corr/abs-2007-01788.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}
The TICO-19 evaluation set provides:

* Predefined dev and test splits. We provide English-XX translation files under both the `dev` and `test` directories.
* The dev set includes 971 sentences, and the test set includes 2100 sentences.
* The corresponding IDs are listed in the `dev.ids` and `test.ids` files.

The format of the files is:
~~~
{sourceLang}\t{targetLang}\t{sourceString}\t{targetString}\t{stringID}\t{sourceURL}\t{license}\t{translator_ID}
~~~

Currently available languages:

* Amharic (am)
* Arabic (ar)
* Bengali (bn)
* Kurdish Sorani (ckb)
* Latin American Spanish (es-LA)
* Farsi (fa)
* French (fr)
* Nigerian Fulfulde (fuv)
* Hausa (ha)
* Hindi (hi)
* Indonesian (id)
* Kurdish Kurmanji (ku)
* Lingala (ln)
* Luganda (lg)
* Marathi (mr)
* Malay (ms)
* Muanmar (my)
* Nepali (ne)
* Oromo (om)
* Dari (prs)
* Pashto (ps)
* Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR)
* Russian (ru)
* Kinyarwanda (rw)
* Somali (so)
* kiSwahili (sw)
* Ethiopian Tigrinya (ti)
* Tagalog (tl)
* Urdu (ur)
* Chinese (Simplified) (zh)
* Zulu (zu)


All translations are released under a CC-0 license.