SMOL: Professionally translated parallel data for 115 under-represented languages

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Hauptverfasser: Caswell, Isaac, Nielsen, Elizabeth, Luo, Jiaming, Cherry, Colin, Kovacs, Geza, Shemtov, Hadar, Talukdar, Partha, Tewari, Dinesh, Diane, Baba Mamadi, Diane, Djibrila, Cissé, Solo Farabado, Doumbouya, Koulako Moussa, Ferrante, Edoardo, Guasoni, Alessandro, Homan, Christopher, Keita, Mamadou K., DebBarma, Sudhamoy, Kuzhuget, Ali, Anugraha, David, Habibi, Muhammad Ravi Shulthan, Winata, Genta Indra, Munthali, Anthony, Ahmadi, Sina, Chemyshev, Andrei, Lau, Mingfei, Eng, Jonathan
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author Caswell, Isaac
Nielsen, Elizabeth
Luo, Jiaming
Cherry, Colin
Kovacs, Geza
Shemtov, Hadar
Talukdar, Partha
Tewari, Dinesh
Diane, Baba Mamadi
Diane, Djibrila
Cissé, Solo Farabado
Doumbouya, Koulako Moussa
Ferrante, Edoardo
Guasoni, Alessandro
Homan, Christopher
Keita, Mamadou K.
DebBarma, Sudhamoy
Kuzhuget, Ali
Anugraha, David
Habibi, Muhammad Ravi Shulthan
Winata, Genta Indra
Munthali, Anthony
Ahmadi, Sina
Chemyshev, Andrei
Lau, Mingfei
Eng, Jonathan
author_facet Caswell, Isaac
Nielsen, Elizabeth
Luo, Jiaming
Cherry, Colin
Kovacs, Geza
Shemtov, Hadar
Talukdar, Partha
Tewari, Dinesh
Diane, Baba Mamadi
Diane, Djibrila
Cissé, Solo Farabado
Doumbouya, Koulako Moussa
Ferrante, Edoardo
Guasoni, Alessandro
Homan, Christopher
Keita, Mamadou K.
DebBarma, Sudhamoy
Kuzhuget, Ali
Anugraha, David
Habibi, Muhammad Ravi Shulthan
Winata, Genta Indra
Munthali, Anthony
Ahmadi, Sina
Chemyshev, Andrei
Lau, Mingfei
Eng, Jonathan
contents We open-source SMOL (Set of Maximal Overall Leverage), a suite of training data to unlock machine translation for low-resource languages. SMOL has been translated into 124 (and growing) under-resourced languages (125 language pairs), including many for which there exist no previous public resources, for a total of 6.1M translated tokens. SMOL comprises two sub-datasets, each carefully chosen for maximum impact given its size: SMOLSENT, a set of sentences chosen for broad unique token coverage, and SMOLDOC, a document-level resource focusing on a broad topic coverage. They join the already released GATITOS for a trifecta of paragraph, sentence, and token-level content. We demonstrate that using SMOL to prompt or fine-tune Large Language Models yields robust chrF improvements. In addition to translation, we provide factuality ratings and rationales for all documents in SMOLDOC, yielding the first factuality datasets for most of these languages.
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spellingShingle SMOL: Professionally translated parallel data for 115 under-represented languages
Caswell, Isaac
Nielsen, Elizabeth
Luo, Jiaming
Cherry, Colin
Kovacs, Geza
Shemtov, Hadar
Talukdar, Partha
Tewari, Dinesh
Diane, Baba Mamadi
Diane, Djibrila
Cissé, Solo Farabado
Doumbouya, Koulako Moussa
Ferrante, Edoardo
Guasoni, Alessandro
Homan, Christopher
Keita, Mamadou K.
DebBarma, Sudhamoy
Kuzhuget, Ali
Anugraha, David
Habibi, Muhammad Ravi Shulthan
Winata, Genta Indra
Munthali, Anthony
Ahmadi, Sina
Chemyshev, Andrei
Lau, Mingfei
Eng, Jonathan
Computation and Language
We open-source SMOL (Set of Maximal Overall Leverage), a suite of training data to unlock machine translation for low-resource languages. SMOL has been translated into 124 (and growing) under-resourced languages (125 language pairs), including many for which there exist no previous public resources, for a total of 6.1M translated tokens. SMOL comprises two sub-datasets, each carefully chosen for maximum impact given its size: SMOLSENT, a set of sentences chosen for broad unique token coverage, and SMOLDOC, a document-level resource focusing on a broad topic coverage. They join the already released GATITOS for a trifecta of paragraph, sentence, and token-level content. We demonstrate that using SMOL to prompt or fine-tune Large Language Models yields robust chrF improvements. In addition to translation, we provide factuality ratings and rationales for all documents in SMOLDOC, yielding the first factuality datasets for most of these languages.
title SMOL: Professionally translated parallel data for 115 under-represented languages
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12301