BabyLM-community/babylm-ara

BabyLM Dataset

Dataset Description

This dataset is part of the BabyLM multilingual collection.
More information at: babylm.github.io/babybabellm

Dataset Summary

• Language: ara
• Script: Arab
• Tier: 10M
• Byte Premium Factor: 1.465018
• Size (MB): 79.57
• Expected Size (MB): 79.55
• Number of Documents: 30,533
• Total Tokens: 8,353,682
• Tokenizer: separate by whitespace

Tokens Per Category

• child-available-speech: 3,160,747 tokens
• child-books: 1,667,683 tokens
• child-wiki: 4,911 tokens
• padding-opensubtitles: 3,520,341 tokens

Tokens Per Group

• Transcription: 3,160,747 tokens
• Education: 0 tokens
• Books, Wiki, News: 1,672,594 tokens
• Subtitles: 0 tokens
• Padding: 3,520,341 tokens

Data Fields

• text: The document text
• doc-id: Unique identifier for the document
• category: Type of content (e.g., child-directed-speech, educational, etc.)
• data-source: Original source of the data
• script: Writing system used (ISO 15924)
• age-estimate: Target age or age range
• license: Data license
• misc: Additional metadata (JSON string)
• num-tokens: Number of tokens per item (based on white-space split)
• language: Language code (ISO 639-3)

Licensing Information

Please see license in individual documents

Data Sources & Attribution

Books

• Arabic Book Corpus
  • source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235234092500188X
  • description: Collection of children stories
• Ririro Story Collection
  • source: https://ririro.com/
  • description: Collection of children storybooks
• GlotStoryBooks Collection
  • source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16248
  • description: Collection of children storybooks

Transcription

• Habibi Corpus (El-Haj, 2020)
  • source: https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.165/
  • description: Song lyrics in a variety of dialects
• Yemeni Arabic Conversational Speech Corpus - MagicHub
  • source: https://magichub.com/datasets/yemeni-arabic-conversational-speech-corpus/
  • description: Adult speech conversation
• Egyptian Arabic Conversational Speech Corpus - MagicHub
  • source: https://magichub.com/datasets/egyptian-arabic-conversational-speech-corpus/
  • description: Adult speech conversation

Wikis

• Children's Wiki
  • source: https://ar.vikidia.org/
  • description: Online encyclopedia based on wiki, adapted for children

Data Curators

• Nikitas Theodoropoulos (nikitastheodorop@gmail.com)

Comments

This dataset is defined for the macro-language ara. With the addition of more dialectal developmentally plausible data we envision a separate BabyLM dataset for each dialect, as well as a combined repo, like this one.