README.md

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# Welcome to SEACrowd! 👋

SEACrowd is a community movement project aimed at centralizing and standardizing AI resources for Southeast Asian languages, cultures, and/or regions.
This movement is co-initiated by SEA researchers and practitioners from various institutions.

> Our first publication is out: ["SEACrowd: A Multilingual Multimodal Data Hub and Benchmark Suite for Southeast Asian Languages"](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.10118)! Our HuggingFace collection is [here](https://huggingface.co/collections/SEACrowd/seacrowd-a-multilingual-multimodal-data-hub-and-benchmark-s-667127ad938266072cdc46be).

> We will update the dataloaders soon!

1. Why Is It Important?

It is essential to greatly increase the accessibility of SEA datasets, promote research in SEA languages and cultures, as well as build more AI models that represent SEA.

2. Do you have other on-going project(s)?

We will start discussing our next directions by the end of June 2024. Stay tuned via [SEACrowd's Discord channel](https://discord.gg/XXRHFuvkTA)!
Check out our [past projects](https://github.com/SEACrowd#past-projects).

3. Important URLs

[HuggingFace Collection](https://huggingface.co/collections/SEACrowd/seacrowd-a-multilingual-multimodal-data-hub-and-benchmark-s-667127ad938266072cdc46be) | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.10118) | [Github and Landing Page](https://github.com/SEACrowd) | [SEACrowd Catalogue](https://seacrowd.github.io/seacrowd-catalogue/) | [SEACrowd Data Hub](https://github.com/SEACrowd/seacrowd-datahub/) | [SEACrowd Experiments](https://github.com/SEACrowd/seacrowd-experiments)

4. I'm interested. Where can I get the updates?

Join us in [Discord](https://discord.gg/XXRHFuvkTA) or [SEACrowd mailing list via Google Groups](https://groups.google.com/u/0/g/seacrowd) to keep in touch and be the first to know the updates!

5. How should I cite SEACrowd?

If you are using any resources from SEACrowd, including datasheets, dataloaders, code, etc., please cite [the following publication](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.10118):

```
@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}
}
```

6. Where can I read and learn more details?

Check out our [landing page](https://github.com/SEACrowd) for starters!