task_categories:translation annotations_creators:found language_creators:found multilinguality:translation size_categories:1K<n<10K source_datasets:extended|wikipedia source_datasets:extended|opus_gnome source_datasets:extended|opus_ubuntu source_datasets:extended|open_subtitles source_datasets:extended|paracrawl source_datasets:extended|bible_para source_datasets:extended|kde4 source_datasets:extended|other-global-voices source_datasets:extended|other-common-crawl language:en language:ne language:si license:cc-by-4.0 arxiv:1902.01382 region:us
Evaluation datasets for low-resource machine translation: Nepali-English and Sinhala-English.
@misc{guzmn2019new,
    title={Two New Evaluation Datasets for Low-Resource Machine Translation: Nepali-English and Sinhala-English},
    author={Francisco Guzman and Peng-Jen Chen and Myle Ott and Juan Pino and Guillaume Lample and Philipp Koehn and Vishrav Chaudhary and Marc'Aurelio Ranzato},
    year={2019},
    eprint={1902.01382},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}
---
pretty_name: Flores
annotations_creators:
- found
language_creators:
- found
language:
- en
- ne
- si
license:
- cc-by-4.0
multilinguality:
- translation
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
source_datasets:
- extended|wikipedia
- extended|opus_gnome
- extended|opus_ubuntu
- extended|open_subtitles
- extended|paracrawl
- extended|bible_para
- extended|kde4
- extended|other-global-voices
- extended|other-common-crawl
task_categories:
- translation
task_ids: []
paperswithcode_id: flores
dataset_info:
- config_name: neen
  features:
  - name: translation
    dtype:
      translation:
        languages:
        - ne
        - en
  splits:
  - name: validation
    num_bytes: 849380
    num_examples: 2560
  - name: test
    num_bytes: 999063
    num_examples: 2836
  download_size: 1542781
  dataset_size: 1848443
- config_name: sien
  features:
  - name: translation
    dtype:
      translation:
        languages:
        - si
        - en
  splits:
  - name: validation
    num_bytes: 1031158
    num_examples: 2899
  - name: test
    num_bytes: 983563
    num_examples: 2767
  download_size: 1542781
  dataset_size: 2014721
config_names:
- neen
- sien
---

# Dataset Card for "flores"

## 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://github.com/facebookresearch/flores/](https://github.com/facebookresearch/flores/)
- **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:** 3.08 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 3.87 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 6.95 MB

### Dataset Summary

Evaluation datasets for low-resource machine translation: Nepali-English and Sinhala-English.

### 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

#### neen

- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 1.54 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 1.86 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 3.40 MB

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

{
    "translation": "{\"en\": \"This is the wrong translation!\", \"ne\": \"यस वाहेक आगम पूजा, तारा पूजा, व्रत आदि पनि घरभित्र र वाहिर दुवै स्थानमा गरेको पा..."
}
```

#### sien

- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 1.54 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 2.01 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 3.57 MB

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

{
    "translation": "{\"en\": \"This is the wrong translation!\", \"si\": \"එවැනි ආවරණයක් ලබාදීමට රක්ෂණ සපයන්නෙකු කැමති වුවත් ඒ සාමාන් යයෙන් බොහෝ රටවල පොදු ..."
}
```

### Data Fields

The data fields are the same among all splits.

#### neen
- `translation`: a multilingual `string` variable, with possible languages including `ne`, `en`.

#### sien
- `translation`: a multilingual `string` variable, with possible languages including `si`, `en`.

### Data Splits

|name|validation|test|
|----|---------:|---:|
|neen|      2560|2836|
|sien|      2899|2767|

## 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

```
@misc{guzmn2019new,
    title={Two New Evaluation Datasets for Low-Resource Machine Translation: Nepali-English and Sinhala-English},
    author={Francisco Guzman and Peng-Jen Chen and Myle Ott and Juan Pino and Guillaume Lample and Philipp Koehn and Vishrav Chaudhary and Marc'Aurelio Ranzato},
    year={2019},
    eprint={1902.01382},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}

```


### Contributions

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