region:us
LinCE is a centralized Linguistic Code-switching Evaluation benchmark
(https://ritual.uh.edu/lince/) that contains data for training and evaluating
NLP systems on code-switching tasks.
@inproceedings{aguilar-etal-2020-lince,
    title = "{L}in{CE}: A Centralized Benchmark for Linguistic Code-switching Evaluation",
    author = "Aguilar, Gustavo  and
      Kar, Sudipta  and
      Solorio, Thamar",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
    month = may,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Marseille, France",
    publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
    url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lrec-1.223",
    pages = "1803--1813",
    language = "English",
    ISBN = "979-10-95546-34-4",
}

Note that each LinCE dataset has its own citation. Please see the source to see
the correct citation for each contained dataset.
---
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pretty_name: Linguistic Code-switching Evaluation Dataset
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# Dataset Card for "lince"

## 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:** [http://ritual.uh.edu/lince](http://ritual.uh.edu/lince)
- **Repository:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
- **Paper:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
- **Point of Contact:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 9.09 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 56.42 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 65.52 MB

### Dataset Summary

LinCE is a centralized Linguistic Code-switching Evaluation benchmark
(https://ritual.uh.edu/lince/) that contains data for training and evaluating
NLP systems on code-switching tasks.

### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Languages

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

#### lid_hineng

- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 0.43 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 2.39 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 2.82 MB

An example of 'validation' looks as follows.
```
{
    "idx": 0,
    "lid": ["other", "other", "lang1", "lang1", "lang1", "other", "lang1", "lang1", "lang1", "lang1", "lang1", "lang1", "lang1", "mixed", "lang1", "lang1", "other"],
    "words": ["@ZahirJ", "@BinyavangaW", "Loved", "the", "ending", "!", "I", "could", "have", "offered", "you", "some", "ironic", "chai-tea", "for", "it", ";)"]
}
```

#### lid_msaea

- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 0.81 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 4.89 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 5.69 MB

An example of 'train' looks as follows.
```
This example was too long and was cropped:

{
    "idx": 0,
    "lid": ["ne", "lang2", "other", "lang2", "lang2", "other", "other", "lang2", "lang2", "lang2", "lang2", "lang2", "lang2", "lang2", "lang2", "lang2", "lang2", "lang2", "lang2", "lang2", "lang2", "other", "lang2", "lang2", "lang2", "ne", "lang2", "lang2"],
    "words": "[\"علاء\", \"بخير\", \"،\", \"معنوياته\", \"كويسة\", \".\", \"..\", \"اسخف\", \"حاجة\", \"بس\", \"ان\", \"كل\", \"واحد\", \"منهم\", \"بييقى\", \"مقفول\", \"عليه\"..."
}
```

#### lid_nepeng

- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 0.55 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 3.21 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 3.75 MB

An example of 'validation' looks as follows.
```
{
    "idx": 1,
    "lid": ["other", "lang2", "lang2", "lang2", "lang2", "lang1", "lang1", "lang1", "lang1", "lang1", "lang2", "lang2", "other", "mixed", "lang2", "lang2", "other", "other", "other", "other"],
    "words": ["@nirvikdada", "la", "hamlai", "bhetna", "paayeko", "will", "be", "your", "greatest", "gift", "ni", "dada", ";P", "#TreatChaiyo", "j", "hos", ";)", "@zappylily", "@AsthaGhm", "@ayacs_asis"]
}
```

#### lid_spaeng

- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 1.18 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 6.83 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 8.01 MB

An example of 'train' looks as follows.
```
{
    "idx": 0,
    "lid": ["other", "other", "lang1", "lang1", "lang1", "other", "lang1", "lang1"],
    "words": ["11:11", ".....", "make", "a", "wish", ".......", "night", "night"]
}
```

#### ner_hineng

- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 0.14 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 0.79 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 0.92 MB

An example of 'train' looks as follows.
```
{
    "idx": 1,
    "lid": ["en", "en", "en", "en", "en", "en", "hi", "hi", "hi", "hi", "hi", "hi", "hi", "en", "en", "en", "en", "rest"],
    "ner": ["O", "O", "O", "O", "O", "O", "O", "O", "O", "O", "O", "B-PERSON", "I-PERSON", "O", "O", "O", "B-PERSON", "I-PERSON"],
    "words": ["I", "liked", "a", "@YouTube", "video", "https://t.co/DmVqhZbdaI", "Kabhi", "Palkon", "Pe", "Aasoon", "Hai-", "Kishore", "Kumar", "-Vocal", "Cover", "By", "Stephen", "Qadir"]
}
```

### Data Fields

The data fields are the same among all splits.

#### lid_hineng
- `idx`: a `int32` feature.
- `words`: a `list` of `string` features.
- `lid`: a `list` of `string` features.

#### lid_msaea
- `idx`: a `int32` feature.
- `words`: a `list` of `string` features.
- `lid`: a `list` of `string` features.

#### lid_nepeng
- `idx`: a `int32` feature.
- `words`: a `list` of `string` features.
- `lid`: a `list` of `string` features.

#### lid_spaeng
- `idx`: a `int32` feature.
- `words`: a `list` of `string` features.
- `lid`: a `list` of `string` features.

#### ner_hineng
- `idx`: a `int32` feature.
- `words`: a `list` of `string` features.
- `lid`: a `list` of `string` features.
- `ner`: a `list` of `string` features.

### Data Splits

|   name   |train|validation|test|
|----------|----:|---------:|---:|
|lid_hineng| 4823|       744|1854|
|lid_msaea | 8464|      1116|1663|
|lid_nepeng| 8451|      1332|3228|
|lid_spaeng|21030|      3332|8289|
|ner_hineng| 1243|       314| 522|

## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Source Data

#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

#### Who are the source language producers?

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Annotations

#### Annotation process

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

#### Who are the annotators?

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Personal and Sensitive Information

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

## Considerations for Using the Data

### Social Impact of Dataset

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Discussion of Biases

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Other Known Limitations

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

## Additional Information

### Dataset Curators

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Licensing Information

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Citation Information

```
@inproceedings{aguilar-etal-2020-lince,
    title = "{L}in{CE}: A Centralized Benchmark for Linguistic Code-switching Evaluation",
    author = "Aguilar, Gustavo  and
      Kar, Sudipta  and
      Solorio, Thamar",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
    month = may,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Marseille, France",
    publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
    url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lrec-1.223",
    pages = "1803--1813",
    language = "English",
    ISBN = "979-10-95546-34-4",
}
```

Note that each LinCE dataset has its own citation too. Please see [here](https://ritual.uh.edu/lince/datasets)
for the correct citation on each dataset.

### Contributions

Thanks to [@lhoestq](https://github.com/lhoestq), [@thomwolf](https://github.com/thomwolf), [@gaguilar](https://github.com/gaguilar) for adding this dataset.