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Mistakes in ar-en Translation

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by AhmadYasser1 - opened

In the rows 15 and 16 (assuming the count starts at 0) for the the ar-en subset, there is an error in each row where in:

-Row 15: "Finland* . 17" is translated as "السويـد* . ٢١". However, it should be translated as "فنلنــدا* .١٧". This means that both the Arabic text and number were incorrectly translated.

-Row 16: Same thing applies here in which both the Arabic text and number were incorrectly translated. "Iceland* . 17" is translated as "فنلنــدا* . ٢١". However, it should be translated as "أيسلندا* .١٧".

While skimming through the Dataset Viewer, these were the mistakes that I noticed , so take care because there may be mistakes in the rest 12+ million rows.

Language Technology Research Group at the University of Helsinki org
edited Jan 29

Hi @AhmadYasser1 , thanks for reporting.

I guess this is an issue with the original data. Note that this script just downloads the original data and transforms it into a dataset.

The original data comes from: https://opus.nlpl.eu/download.php?f=UNPC/v1.0/moses/ar-en.txt.zip
And its content is supposed to be parallelly aligned sentences. The wrong parallel sentences from the original data files are:

Australia . 3
Denmark* . 17
Finland* . 17
Iceland* . 17
Mexico . 19
Norway . 23
United States of America . 25

and

استراليا . ٤
الدانمرك* . ٢١
السويـد* . ٢١
فنلنــدا* . ٢١
المكسيك . ٢١
النرويج . ٢٥
الوﻻيات المتحدة اﻷمريكية . ٢٧

Maybe, it would be worth informing the authors of the original dataset... https://opus.nlpl.eu/UNPC.php

Thank you for the clarification; I will be informing the authors of the original dataset.

AhmadYasser1 changed discussion status to closed
Language Technology Research Group at the University of Helsinki org

Thanks @AhmadYasser1 .

And please, feel free to inform us if the authors are planning to fix this or not.

albertvillanova changed discussion status to open

Sure, will do!

Language Technology Research Group at the University of Helsinki org

Hi @AhmadYasser1 , any update on this issue?
Thanks.

I could not find the authors because the link you sent is not working. Any other ways I can reach them?

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