---
configs:
- config_name: omamedia
  data_files: "omamedia.json"
- config_name: vepkar
  data_files: "vepkar.json"
- config_name: wikipedia
  data_files: "wikipedia.json"
- config_name: ylefi
  data_files: "ylefi.json"
---
license: mit
---

# PaLe-MADLAD Data

Data used for training the [PaLe-MADLAD model](https://huggingface.co/tartuNLP/pale-madlad-mt) to translate from Proper Karelian, Livvi, Ludian, and Veps to Russian and vice versa. Every dataset entry represents a single text and comes as a list of sentences supplemented (where possible) with a list of translations into Russian. Our sources include:
- [VepKar](http://dictorpus.krc.karelia.ru/en): various articles, Biblical texts, folklore, and more in Proper Karelian, Livvi, Ludian, and Veps, mostly translated into Russian
- [Omamedia](https://omamedia.ru/): news articles in Proper Karelian, Livvi, and Veps
- Wikipedia: multi-domain articles in Livvi and Veps
- [yle.fi](https://yle.fi/): news articles in Livvi

## Example Usage

````
from datasets import load_dataset

# Options for loading: 'vepkar', 'omamedia', 'wikipedia', 'ylefi'
load_dataset('tartuNLP/pale-madlad-data', 'vepkar')
````

Please cite the following paper if you use these datasets in your work:
```
@inproceedings{
pashchenko2024paragraphlevel,
title={Paragraph-Level Machine Translation for Low-Resource Finno-Ugric Languages},
author={Dmytro Pashchenko and Lisa Yankovskaya and Mark Fishel},
booktitle={The Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies},
year={2024},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=uTFJsQpNZk}
}
```

If you use 'Vepkar', please also cite the following paper:
```
@article{Boyko_2022_vepkar,
    title={The Open Corpus of the Veps and Karelian Languages: Overview and Applications},
    volume={7},
    number={3},
    journal={KnE Social Sciences},
    author={Boyko, Tatyana and Zaitseva, Nina and Krizhanovskaya, Natalia and Krizhanovsky, Andrew and Novak, Irina and Pellinen, Nataliya and Rodionova, Aleksandra},
    year={2022},
    month={Feb.},
    pages={29–40}}
```