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+ ---
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+ license: cc-by-nc-4.0
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+ language:
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+ - sus
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+ - fr
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+ - en
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+ task_categories:
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+ - translation
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+ tags:
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+ - susu
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+ - soussou
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+ - low-resource
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+ - african-languages
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+ - machine-translation
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+ pretty_name: Susu (Soussou) Parallel and Monolingual Corpus
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+ size_categories:
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+ - 100K<n<1M
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+ configs:
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+ - config_name: sus-fr
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+ data_files:
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+ - split: train
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+ path: sus_fr_train.csv
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+ - split: validation
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+ path: sus_fr_dev.csv
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+ - split: test
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+ path: sus_fr_test.csv
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+ - config_name: sus-en
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+ data_files:
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+ - split: train
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+ path: sus_en_train.csv
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+ - split: validation
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+ path: sus_en_dev.csv
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+ - split: test
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+ path: sus_en_test.csv
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+ - config_name: monolingual
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+ data_files:
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+ - split: train
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+ path: sus_monolingual.csv
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+ - config_name: lexicon
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+ data_files:
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+ - split: train
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+ path: lexicon.csv
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+ ---
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+
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+ # Susu (Soussou) Parallel and Monolingual Corpus
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+
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+ A multi-source corpus for **Susu** (Soussou; ISO 639-3 `sus`), a Mande language of
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+ Guinea that is absent from NLLB-200 and from commercial MT systems. Built to train
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+ [`2ADT-Consulting/nllb-susu-v2`](https://huggingface.co/2ADT-Consulting/nllb-susu-v2),
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+ one of the first open neural MT systems for Susu.
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+
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+ ## Configurations
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+
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+ | Config | Split | #rows | Columns |
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+ |---|---|--:|---|
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+ | `sus-fr` | train / validation / test | 114,503 / 1,000 / 1,000 | `sus`, `fr` |
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+ | `sus-en` | train / validation / test | 111,013 / 991 / 992 | `sus`, `en` |
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+ | `monolingual` | train | 28,724 | `sus` |
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+ | `lexicon` | train | ~7,000 | `sus_officiel`, `sus_ortho_fr`, `fr`, ... |
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from datasets import load_dataset
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+ ds = load_dataset("2ADT-Consulting/susu-parallel", "sus-fr")
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+ print(ds["test"][0]) # {'sus': '...', 'fr': '...'}
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+ ```
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+
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+ ## Sources and construction
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+
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+ - **Bible translations** (Susu ↔ fr/en) aligned at verse level via verse keys
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+ (source: YouVersion). This is the backbone of the parallel data.
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+ - **Bilingual dictionary** (~7,000 Susu–French entries), including both the
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+ official orthography and a French-style spelling (`sus_ortho_fr`).
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+ - **Everyday dialogues** extracted from a Peace-Corps Susu language-course manual,
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+ plus additional Christian-education booklets.
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+ - **Orthography-aware augmentation**: informal "French-style" (SMS) variants of
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+ Susu sentences generated with deterministic rules
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+ (`x`→`kh`, `u`→`ou`, `ɛ`→`è`, `ɔ`→`o`, `ɲ`→`gn`, ...), so models learn to read
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+ informal input while producing the official orthography.
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+
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+ Pairs with an out-of-range source/target length ratio are filtered (211 removed
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+ for sus–fr, 522 for sus–en). Vocabulary: 8,690 unique word types, 757,387 tokens.
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+
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+ ## Intended use and limitations
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+
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+ - Intended for **machine translation** and low-resource NLP research on Susu.
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+ - **Register bias**: the parallel data is dominated by biblical text; models and
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+ automatic metrics computed against these references over-reward the religious
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+ register. The everyday/dictionary/dialogue data partially mitigates this.
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+ - **No native-speaker validation yet.** Automatic references may contain errors.
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+
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+ ## License and citation
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+
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+ Released under **CC-BY-NC-4.0** (inherited from NLLB-200). The data derives from
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+ copyrighted Bible translations, a dictionary, and a course manual — **non-commercial
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+ use only**; verify the terms of the original sources before redistribution.
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+
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+ ```bibtex
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+ @misc{susu-corpus,
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+ title = {Susu (Soussou) Parallel and Monolingual Corpus},
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+ author = {TODO},
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+ year = {2026},
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+ note = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/2ADT-Consulting/susu-parallel}}
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+ }
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+ ```