metadata

license: mit
dataset_info:
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      - name: text
        dtype: string
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      - name: text
        dtype: string
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      - name: text
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  - config_name: Tunisian_Dialectic_English_Derja
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configs:
  - config_name: Derja_tunsi
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: Derja_tunsi/train-*
  - config_name: HkayetErwi
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: HkayetErwi/train-*
  - config_name: TunBERT
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: TunBERT/train-*
  - config_name: TunSwitchCodeSwitching
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: TunSwitchCodeSwitching/train-*
  - config_name: Tunisian_Dialectic_English_Derja
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: Tunisian_Dialectic_English_Derja/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	1220712
HkayetErwi	966
Derja_tunsi	13037
TunBERT	67219
TunSwitchCodeSwitching	394163
TunSwitchTunisiaOnly	380546
Tweet_TN	39637
TRCD	145
TSAC	8479
TuDiCOI	3426

Citations

When using the Tunisian Derja Dataset dataset, please cite:

@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 are the following:

Tunisian_English_dialectic_Derja

@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

@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}
}