README.md

---
tags:
- machine-translation
language:
- ind
- ara
- spa
- fra
- hin
- por
- rus
- zho
- eng
---

# tico_19

TICO-19 (Translation Initiative for COVID-19) is sampled from a variety of public sources containing 

COVID-19 related content, representing different domains (e.g., news, wiki articles, and others). TICO-19 

includes 30 documents (3071 sentences, 69.7k words) translated from English into 36 languages: Amharic, 

Arabic (Modern Standard), Bengali, Chinese (Simplified), Dari, Dinka, Farsi, French (European), Hausa, 

Hindi, Indonesian, Kanuri, Khmer (Central), Kinyarwanda, Kurdish Kurmanji, Kurdish Sorani, Lingala, 

Luganda, Malay, Marathi, Myanmar, Nepali, Nigerian Fulfulde, Nuer, Oromo, Pashto, Portuguese (Brazilian), 

Russian, Somali, Spanish (Latin American), Swahili, Congolese Swahili, Tagalog, Tamil, Tigrinya, Urdu, Zulu.

## Dataset Usage

Run `pip install nusacrowd` before loading the dataset through HuggingFace's `load_dataset`.

## Citation

```
@inproceedings{anastasopoulos-etal-2020-tico,
    title = "{TICO}-19: the Translation Initiative for {CO}vid-19",
    author = {Anastasopoulos, Antonios  and
      Cattelan, Alessandro  and
      Dou, Zi-Yi  and
      Federico, Marcello  and
      Federmann, Christian  and
      Genzel, Dmitriy  and
      Guzm{'a}n, Franscisco  and
      Hu, Junjie  and
      Hughes, Macduff  and
      Koehn, Philipp  and
      Lazar, Rosie  and
      Lewis, Will  and
      Neubig, Graham  and
      Niu, Mengmeng  and
      {"O}ktem, Alp  and
      Paquin, Eric  and
      Tang, Grace  and
      Tur, Sylwia},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on {NLP} for {COVID}-19 (Part 2) at {EMNLP} 2020",
    month = dec,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.5",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.nlpcovid19-2.5",
}
```

## License

CC0

## Homepage

[https://tico-19.github.io](https://tico-19.github.io)

### NusaCatalogue

For easy indexing and metadata: [https://indonlp.github.io/nusa-catalogue](https://indonlp.github.io/nusa-catalogue)