---
license: mit
language:
- nl
---

This dataset is the Dutch machine-translated and human post-edited version of the original SICK dataset, which was constructed from image and video caption descriptions.

## Citation Information

If you find our paper, benchmark or models helpful, please consider cite as follows:
```latex
@misc{banar2025mtebnle5nlembeddingbenchmark,
      title={MTEB-NL and E5-NL: Embedding Benchmark and Models for Dutch}, 
      author={Nikolay Banar and Ehsan Lotfi and Jens Van Nooten and Cristina Arhiliuc and Marija Kliocaite and Walter Daelemans},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2509.12340},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12340}, 
}
```
[//]: # (https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12340)

The data source:

```latex
@inproceedings{wijnholds-moortgat-2021-sick,
    title = "{SICK}-{NL}: A Dataset for {D}utch Natural Language Inference",
    author = "Wijnholds, Gijs  and
      Moortgat, Michael",
    editor = "Merlo, Paola  and
      Tiedemann, Jorg  and
      Tsarfaty, Reut",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume",
    month = apr,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.126/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.eacl-main.126",
    pages = "1474--1479",
}
```