README.md

---
license: mit
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    path: Derja_tunsi/train-*
- config_name: HkayetErwi
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- config_name: TSAC
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- config_name: TunBERT
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- config_name: TunSwitchCodeSwitching
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- config_name: TunSwitchTunisiaOnly
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    path: TunSwitchTunisiaOnly/train-*
- config_name: Tunisian_Dialectic_English_Derja
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  - split: train
    path: Tunisian_Dialectic_English_Derja/train-*
- config_name: Tweet_TN
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    path: Tweet_TN/train-*
---
# Tunisian Derja Dataset (Tunisian Arabic) 
This is a collection of Tunisian dialect textual documents for Language Modeling.

It was used for contunial pretraining of Jais LLM model in Tunisian dialect
### Languages
The dataset is available in Tunisian Arabic (Derja).

### Data Table
| **subset** | **Lines** | 
| --- | --- | 
| [Tunisian_Dialectic_English_Derja](https://huggingface.co/datasets/khaled123/Tunisian_Dialectic_English_Derja) | 1220712 | 
| [HkayetErwi](https://hikayattunisien.blogspot.com/) | 966 |  
| [Derja_tunsi](https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/khawlajlassi/drejja-to-english?resource=download) | 13037 | 
| [TunBERT](https://github.com/instadeepai/tunbert) | 67219 | 
| [TunSwitchCodeSwitching](https://zenodo.org/records/8342762) | 394163 | 
| [TunSwitchTunisiaOnly](https://zenodo.org/records/8342762) | 380546 |  
| Tweet_TN | 39637 | 329479 | 37275 |
| [TRCD](https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.00051) | 145 |
| [TSAC](https://github.com/fbougares/TSAC) | 8479 | 
| [TuDiCOI](https://huggingface.co/datasets/arbml/TuDiCoI) | 3426 | 

## Citations
When using the **Tunisian Derja Dataset** dataset, please cite:

```bibtex
@dataset{linagora2025LLM-tn,
  author = {Wajdi Ghezaiel and Jean-Pierre Lorré},
  title = {Tunisian Derja Dataset},
  year = {2025},
  month = {January},  
  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/Wajdi1976/tunisian_derja_dataset}
}

```

Citations for included datasets:
* LinTO Texual Dataset in Arabic Tunisian
```bibtex
@misc{linagora2024Linto-tn,
  author = {Hedi Naouara and Jérôme Louradour and Jean-Pierre Lorré},
  title = {LinTO Audio and Textual Datasets to Train and Evaluate Automatic Speech Recognition in Tunisian Arabic Dialect},
  year = {2024},
  month = {October},
  note = {Good Data Workshop, AAAI 2025},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/linagora/linto-asr-ar-tn-0.1}},
}

```
* Tunisian_English_dialectic_Derja
```bibtex
@dataset{Tunisian_English_dialectic_Derja,
  author = {Khaled Bouzaiene},
  title = {Tunisian-English Dialectic Derja Dataset},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/khaled123/Tunisian_English_dialectic_Derja}
}
```
* TunSwitch
```bibtex
@misc{abdallah2023leveraging,
      title={Leveraging Data Collection and Unsupervised Learning for Code-switched Tunisian Arabic Automatic Speech Recognition}, 
      author={Ahmed Amine Ben Abdallah and Ata Kabboudi and Amir Kanoun and Salah Zaiem},
      year={2023},
      eprint={2309.11327},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={eess.AS}
}
```