---
license: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
language: 
- mya
pretty_name: Alt Burmese Treebank
task_categories: 
- constituency-parsing
tags: 
- constituency-parsing
---

A 20,000-sentence Burmese (Myanmar) treebank on news articles containing complete phrase structure annotation.As the final result of the Burmese component in the Asian Language Treebank Project, this is the first large-scale,open-access treebank for the Burmese language.


## Languages

mya

## Supported Tasks

Constituency Parsing

## Dataset Usage
### Using `datasets` library
```
from datasets import load_dataset
dset = datasets.load_dataset("SEACrowd/alt_burmese_treebank", trust_remote_code=True)
```
### Using `seacrowd` library
```import seacrowd as sc
# Load the dataset using the default config
dset = sc.load_dataset("alt_burmese_treebank", schema="seacrowd")
# Check all available subsets (config names) of the dataset
print(sc.available_config_names("alt_burmese_treebank"))
# Load the dataset using a specific config
dset = sc.load_dataset_by_config_name(config_name="<config_name>")
```

More details on how to load the `seacrowd` library can be found [here](https://github.com/SEACrowd/seacrowd-datahub?tab=readme-ov-file#how-to-use).


## Dataset Homepage

[https://zenodo.org/records/3463010](https://zenodo.org/records/3463010)

## Dataset Version

Source: 1.0.0. SEACrowd: 2024.06.20.

## Dataset License

Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 (cc-by-nc-sa-4.0)

## Citation

If you are using the **Alt Burmese Treebank** dataloader in your work, please cite the following:
```
@article{
    10.1145/3373268,
    author = {Ding, Chenchen and Yee, Sann Su Su and Pa, Win Pa and Soe, Khin Mar and Utiyama, Masao and Sumita, Eiichiro},
    title = {A Burmese (Myanmar) Treebank: Guideline and Analysis},
    year = {2020},
    issue_date = {May 2020},
    publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
    address = {New York, NY, USA},
    volume = {19},
    number = {3},
    issn = {2375-4699},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3373268},
    doi = {10.1145/3373268},
    abstract = {A 20,000-sentence Burmese (Myanmar) treebank on news articles has been released under a CC BY-NC-SA license.               Complete phrase structure annotation was developed for each sentence from the morphologically annotated data               prepared in previous work of Ding et&nbsp;al. [1]. As the final result of the Burmese component in the Asian               Language Treebank Project, this is the first large-scale, open-access treebank for the Burmese language.               The annotation details and features of this treebank are presented.               },
    journal = {ACM Trans. Asian Low-Resour. Lang. Inf. Process.},
    month = {jan},
    articleno = {40},
    numpages = {13},
    keywords = {Burmese (Myanmar), phrase structure, treebank}
}


@article{lovenia2024seacrowd,
    title={SEACrowd: A Multilingual Multimodal Data Hub and Benchmark Suite for Southeast Asian Languages}, 
    author={Holy Lovenia and Rahmad Mahendra and Salsabil Maulana Akbar and Lester James V. Miranda and Jennifer Santoso and Elyanah Aco and Akhdan Fadhilah and Jonibek Mansurov and Joseph Marvin Imperial and Onno P. Kampman and Joel Ruben Antony Moniz and Muhammad Ravi Shulthan Habibi and Frederikus Hudi and Railey Montalan and Ryan Ignatius and Joanito Agili Lopo and William Nixon and Börje F. Karlsson and James Jaya and Ryandito Diandaru and Yuze Gao and Patrick Amadeus and Bin Wang and Jan Christian Blaise Cruz and Chenxi Whitehouse and Ivan Halim Parmonangan and Maria Khelli and Wenyu Zhang and Lucky Susanto and Reynard Adha Ryanda and Sonny Lazuardi Hermawan and Dan John Velasco and Muhammad Dehan Al Kautsar and Willy Fitra Hendria and Yasmin Moslem and Noah Flynn and Muhammad Farid Adilazuarda and Haochen Li and Johanes Lee and R. Damanhuri and Shuo Sun and Muhammad Reza Qorib and Amirbek Djanibekov and Wei Qi Leong and Quyet V. Do and Niklas Muennighoff and Tanrada Pansuwan and Ilham Firdausi Putra and Yan Xu and Ngee Chia Tai and Ayu Purwarianti and Sebastian Ruder and William Tjhi and Peerat Limkonchotiwat and Alham Fikri Aji and Sedrick Keh and Genta Indra Winata and Ruochen Zhang and Fajri Koto and Zheng-Xin Yong and Samuel Cahyawijaya},
    year={2024},
    eprint={2406.10118},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv: 2406.10118}
}

```