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Dataset Card for "lince"

Table of Contents

• Dataset Description
  • Dataset Summary
  • Supported Tasks
  • Languages
• Dataset Structure
  • Data Instances
  • Data Fields
  • Data Splits Sample Size
• Dataset Creation
  • Curation Rationale
  • Source Data
  • Annotations
  • Personal and Sensitive Information
• Considerations for Using the Data
  • Social Impact of Dataset
  • Discussion of Biases
  • Other Known Limitations
• Additional Information
  • Dataset Curators
  • Licensing Information
  • Citation Information
  • Contributions

Dataset Description

• Homepage: http://ritual.uh.edu/lince
• Repository: More Information Needed
• Paper: More Information Needed
• Point of Contact: More Information Needed
• Size of downloaded dataset files: 8.67 MB
• Size of the generated dataset: 53.81 MB
• Total amount of disk used: 62.48 MB

Dataset Summary

LinCE is a centralized Linguistic Code-switching Evaluation benchmark (https://ritual.uh.edu/lince/) that contains data for training and evaluating NLP systems on code-switching tasks.

Supported Tasks

More Information Needed

Languages

More Information Needed

Dataset Structure

We show detailed information for up to 5 configurations of the dataset.

Data Instances

lid_hineng

• Size of downloaded dataset files: 0.41 MB
• Size of the generated dataset: 2.28 MB
• Total amount of disk used: 2.69 MB

An example of 'validation' looks as follows.

{
    "idx": 0,
    "lid": ["other", "other", "lang1", "lang1", "lang1", "other", "lang1", "lang1", "lang1", "lang1", "lang1", "lang1", "lang1", "mixed", "lang1", "lang1", "other"],
    "words": ["@ZahirJ", "@BinyavangaW", "Loved", "the", "ending", "!", "I", "could", "have", "offered", "you", "some", "ironic", "chai-tea", "for", "it", ";)"]
}

lid_msaea

• Size of downloaded dataset files: 0.77 MB
• Size of the generated dataset: 4.66 MB
• Total amount of disk used: 5.43 MB

An example of 'train' looks as follows.

This example was too long and was cropped:

{
    "idx": 0,
    "lid": ["ne", "lang2", "other", "lang2", "lang2", "other", "other", "lang2", "lang2", "lang2", "lang2", "lang2", "lang2", "lang2", "lang2", "lang2", "lang2", "lang2", "lang2", "lang2", "lang2", "other", "lang2", "lang2", "lang2", "ne", "lang2", "lang2"],
    "words": "[\"علاء\", \"بخير\", \"،\", \"معنوياته\", \"كويسة\", \".\", \"..\", \"اسخف\", \"حاجة\", \"بس\", \"ان\", \"كل\", \"واحد\", \"منهم\", \"بييقى\", \"مقفول\", \"عليه\"..."
}

lid_nepeng

• Size of downloaded dataset files: 0.52 MB
• Size of the generated dataset: 3.06 MB
• Total amount of disk used: 3.58 MB

An example of 'validation' looks as follows.

{
    "idx": 1,
    "lid": ["other", "lang2", "lang2", "lang2", "lang2", "lang1", "lang1", "lang1", "lang1", "lang1", "lang2", "lang2", "other", "mixed", "lang2", "lang2", "other", "other", "other", "other"],
    "words": ["@nirvikdada", "la", "hamlai", "bhetna", "paayeko", "will", "be", "your", "greatest", "gift", "ni", "dada", ";P", "#TreatChaiyo", "j", "hos", ";)", "@zappylily", "@AsthaGhm", "@ayacs_asis"]
}

lid_spaeng

• Size of downloaded dataset files: 1.13 MB
• Size of the generated dataset: 6.51 MB
• Total amount of disk used: 7.64 MB

An example of 'train' looks as follows.

{
    "idx": 0,
    "lid": ["other", "other", "lang1", "lang1", "lang1", "other", "lang1", "lang1"],
    "words": ["11:11", ".....", "make", "a", "wish", ".......", "night", "night"]
}

ner_hineng

• Size of downloaded dataset files: 0.13 MB
• Size of the generated dataset: 0.75 MB
• Total amount of disk used: 0.88 MB

An example of 'train' looks as follows.

{
    "idx": 1,
    "lid": ["en", "en", "en", "en", "en", "en", "hi", "hi", "hi", "hi", "hi", "hi", "hi", "en", "en", "en", "en", "rest"],
    "ner": ["O", "O", "O", "O", "O", "O", "O", "O", "O", "O", "O", "B-PERSON", "I-PERSON", "O", "O", "O", "B-PERSON", "I-PERSON"],
    "words": ["I", "liked", "a", "@YouTube", "video", "https://t.co/DmVqhZbdaI", "Kabhi", "Palkon", "Pe", "Aasoon", "Hai-", "Kishore", "Kumar", "-Vocal", "Cover", "By", "Stephen", "Qadir"]
}

Data Fields

The data fields are the same among all splits.

lid_hineng

• idx: a int32 feature.
• words: a list of string features.
• lid: a list of string features.

lid_msaea

• idx: a int32 feature.
• words: a list of string features.
• lid: a list of string features.

lid_nepeng

• idx: a int32 feature.
• words: a list of string features.
• lid: a list of string features.

lid_spaeng

• idx: a int32 feature.
• words: a list of string features.
• lid: a list of string features.

ner_hineng

• idx: a int32 feature.
• words: a list of string features.
• lid: a list of string features.
• ner: a list of string features.

Data Splits Sample Size

name	train	validation	test
lid_hineng	4823	744	1854
lid_msaea	8464	1116	1663
lid_nepeng	8451	1332	3228
lid_spaeng	21030	3332	8289
ner_hineng	1243	314	522

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

More Information Needed

Source Data

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Annotations

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Personal and Sensitive Information

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Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

More Information Needed

Discussion of Biases

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Other Known Limitations

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Additional Information

Dataset Curators

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Licensing Information

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Citation Information

@inproceedings{molina-etal-2016-overview,
   title = "Overview for the Second Shared Task on Language Identification in Code-Switched Data",
   author = "Molina, Giovanni and
             AlGhamdi, Fahad and
             Ghoneim, Mahmoud and
             Hawwari, Abdelati and
             Rey-Villamizar, Nicolas and
             Diab, Mona and
             Solorio, Thamar",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computational Approaches to Code Switching",
   month = nov,
   year = "2016",
   address = "Austin, Texas",
   publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
   url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W16-5805",
   doi = "10.18653/v1/W16-5805",
   pages = "40--49",
}

@inproceedings{aguilar-etal-2020-lince,
    title = "{L}in{CE}: A Centralized Benchmark for Linguistic Code-switching Evaluation",
    author = "Aguilar, Gustavo  and
      Kar, Sudipta  and
      Solorio, Thamar",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
    month = may,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Marseille, France",
    publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
    url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lrec-1.223",
    pages = "1803--1813",
    language = "English",
    ISBN = "979-10-95546-34-4",
}

Note that each LinCE dataset has its own citation. Please see the source to see
the correct citation for each contained dataset.

Contributions

Thanks to @lhoestq, @thomwolf, @gaguilar for adding this dataset.