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English–Swahili Sentence Pairs

General-domain parallel sentences supporting English-to-Swahili translation training.

  • Swahili
  • Parallel
  • Hugging Face
Overview

The data, in context

General-domain parallel sentences supporting English-to-Swahili translation training.

CommonMind uses it to train and evaluate Swahili-gemma-1B-it, Swahili-nllb-1.3B, Swahili-nllb-600M.

DATASET INFORMATION

Language
Swahili
Data type
Parallel
Domain
General
Format
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Size
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Samples used
58,052 pairs (Gemma); capped at 60,000 (NLLB)
Version
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License
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Availability
Hugging Face ↗
Data

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DATA PREVIEW

IDLanguageTypeDomain
00001SwahiliParallelGeneral
00002SwahiliParallelGeneral
00003SwahiliParallelGeneral
00004SwahiliParallelGeneral

Sample rows will appear here once the preview is published.

What's represented

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Language
Swahili
Data Type
Parallel
Source
Hugging Face
Version
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Domains
  • General
Methodology

How the dataset was built

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  1. 01 — CollectionHow the source language data was gathered.
  2. 02 — ProcessingHow speech and related resources were prepared and structured.
  3. 03 — AnnotationHow language and civic information were organised within the dataset.
  4. 04 — ReviewHow the resulting data was assessed and prepared for use.
Usage

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load.py
from datasets import load_dataset

# Datasets with several configurations take one as a second argument.
ds = load_dataset("Rogendo/English-Swahili-Sentence-Pairs")
print(ds)

Dataset Details

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Connected Models

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Limitations

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Known Limitations
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Intended Use
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Out-of-Scope Use
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Representation
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Versions

Dataset history

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VersionReleasedStatusNotes
––In use58,052 pairs (Gemma); capped at 60,000 (NLLB)
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