HornMT

The HornMT repository contains data and the associated metadata for the project Machine Translation Benchmark Dataset for Languages in the Horn of Africa. It is a multi-way parallel corpus that will serve as a benchmark to accelerate progress in machine translation research and production systems for languages in the Horn of Africa.

Supported Languages

Language	ISO 639-3 code
Afar	aaf
Amharic	amh
English	eng
Oromo	orm
Somali	som
Tigrinya	tir

Content

data/ contains one text file per language and each file contains news snippets in the same order for each language.

data
├── aar.txt
├── amh.txt
├── eng.txt
├── orm.txt
├── som.txt
└── tir.txt

metadata.tsv contains tab separated data describing each news snippet. The metadata contains the following fields.

• Scope - describes whether the news is global or local. It takes two values: Global news and Local news.
• Category - News category covering the following 12 topics
  • Art and Culture
  • Business and Economy
  • Conflicts and Attacks
  • Disaster and Accidents
  • Entertainment
  • Environment
  • Health
  • International Relations
  • Law and Crime
  • Politics
  • Science and Technology
  • Sport
• Source - List of one or more URLs from which the news content is extracted or based on.
• Domain - TLD corresponding to the URL(s) in Source.
• Date - The publication date of the source article. The format is yyyy-mm-dd.

Other formats

All the data and associated metadata together in one file is also available in other file formats.

HornMT.xlsx - data and associated metadata in xlsx format.

HornMT.json - data and associated metadata in json format.

Below is an example row.

{
   "data":{
      "eng":"The World Meteorological Organisation reports that the ozone layer is damaged to its worst extent ever in the Arctic.",
      "aaf":"Baad Metrolojih Eglali Areketekeh Addal Ozonih qelu faxe waktik lafetle calat biyakisem xayose.",
      "amh":"የአለም የአየር ንብረት ድርጅት በአርክቲክ አካባቢ ያለው የኦዞን ምንጣፍ ከፍተኛ ጉዳት እንደደረሰበት አስታወቀ፡፡",
      "orm":"Dhaabbanni Meetiroolojii Addunyaa baqqaanni oozonii Arkiitik keessatti gara sadarkaa isa hamaa haga ammaatti akka miidhame gabaase.",
      "som":"Ururka Saadaasha Hawada Adduunka ayaa ku warramaya in lakabka ozoneka ee Ka koreeya dhulka baraflayda uu waxyeelladii abid ugu darnaa soo gaadhay.",
      "tir":"ውድብ ሜትሮሎጂ ዓለም ኣብ ኣርክቲክ ዝርከብ ናሕሲ ኦዞን ኣዝዩ ብዝኸፍአ ደረጃ ከምዝተጎድአ ሓቢሩ፡፡"
   },
   "metadata":{
      "scope":"Global",
      "category":"Science and Technology",
      "source":"https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/ozone-layer-damaged-by-unusually-harsh-winter-2263653.html",
      "domain":"www.independent.co.uk",
      "date":"2011-04-05"
   }
}

Team

Translation Team

Afar

• Mohammed Deresa
• Yasin Nur

Amharic

• Tigist Taye
• Selamawit Hailemariam
• Wako Tilahun

Oromo

• Gemechis Melkamu
• Galata Girmaye

Somali

• Abdiselam Mohamed
• Beshir Abdi

Tigrinya

• Berhanu Abadi Weldegiorgis
• Michael Minassie
• Nureddin Mohammedshiek

Project Leaders

• Asmelash Teka Hadgu asme@lesan.ai
• Gebrekirstos G. Gebremeskel gebrekirstos.gebremeskel@ru.nl
• Abel Aregawi abel@lesan.ai

License

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