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Dataset Description

Dataset for Sranantongo, an English-based creole language spoken as lingua franca in Suriname. The dataset includes monolingual data as well as Sranantongo-Dutch parallel data.

The following splits are available:

  • srn: Monolingual data scraped from SIL. There is a train split (6570 sentences) available.
  • srn-nl_jw: Parallel data srn-nl originating from Jehova Witnesses. There are train (299085 sentences), validation (256 sentences), and test (256 sentences) splits available.
  • srn-nl_other: Parallel data srn-nl originating from Z-Library, Naks Sranan facebook and Dutch DOJ. There are train (3610 sentences), validation (256 sentences), and test (256 sentences) splits available.

For more details see the accompanying paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06383

Using dataset

Example of loading monolingual data:

dataset = load_dataset("davidstap/sranantongo", "srn", trust_remote_code=True)

Example of loading parallel JW data:

dataset = load_dataset("davidstap/sranantongo", "srn-nl_jw", trust_remote_code=True)

Example of loading parallel other data:

dataset = load_dataset("davidstap/sranantongo", "srn-nl_other", trust_remote_code=True)

Citation Information

@article{zwennicker2022towards,
  title={Towards a general purpose machine translation system for Sranantongo},
  author={Zwennicker, Just and Stap, David},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.06383},
  year={2022}
}
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