metadata

license: cc-by-sa-4.0
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      - split: train
        path: Derja_tunsi/train-*
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  - config_name: TunBERT
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      - split: train
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      - split: train
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  - config_name: TunisianSentimentAnalysis
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      - split: train
        path: TunisianSentimentAnalysis/train-*
  - config_name: Tunisian_Dialectic_English_Derja
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      - split: train
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  - config_name: Tweet_TN
    data_files:
      - split: train
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language:
  - aeb

Tunisian Derja Dataset (Tunisian Arabic)

This is a collection of Tunisian dialect textual documents for Language Modeling.

It was used for continual pre-training of Jais LLM model to 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
TSAC	8479
TuDiCOI	3426
Sentiment_derja	22890
TA_Segmentation	30530
TunisianSentimentAnalysis	23786

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:

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}
}

LinTO Texual Dataset in Arabic Tunisian

@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}},
}