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  The source of this curated data is [unicamp-dl/mmarco](https://huggingface.co/datasets/unicamp-dl/mmarco) and the full examples json file (27 GB) is
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  linked in the [ColBERT V2 repo](https://github.com/stanford-futuredata/ColBERT?tab=readme-ov-file#advanced-training-colbertv2-style).
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  More: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/akhooli_arabic-mmarco-sample-dataset-and-colbert-activity-7225135682044743680-35nN
 
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  The source of this curated data is [unicamp-dl/mmarco](https://huggingface.co/datasets/unicamp-dl/mmarco) and the full examples json file (27 GB) is
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  linked in the [ColBERT V2 repo](https://github.com/stanford-futuredata/ColBERT?tab=readme-ov-file#advanced-training-colbertv2-style).
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+ Following an observation of Arabic tokenization issues (ex. in BERT models) - see https://www.linkedin.com/posts/akhooli_arabic-bert-tokenizers-you-may-need-to-normalize-activity-7225747473523216384-D1oH -
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+ two new files were uploaded to this dataset (normalized queries and collection). Models based on these files require normalizing the query first:
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+ ```python
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+ from unicodedata import normalize
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+ normalized_text = normalize('NFKC', text)
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+ ```
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  More: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/akhooli_arabic-mmarco-sample-dataset-and-colbert-activity-7225135682044743680-35nN