README.md

metadata

task_categories:
  - text-generation
language:
  - deu
license: unknown
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K
dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: text
      dtype: string
    - name: doc-id
      dtype: string
    - name: category
      dtype: string
    - name: data-source
      dtype: string
    - name: script
      dtype: string
    - name: age-estimate
      dtype: string
    - name: license
      dtype: string
    - name: misc
      dtype: string
    - name: num-tokens
      dtype: int64
    - name: language
      dtype: string

BabyLM Dataset

Dataset Description

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

Dataset Summary

• Language: deu
• Script: Latn
• Tier: 100M
• Byte Premium Factor: 1.053648
• Size (MB): 568.98
• Expected Size (MB): 572.13
• Number of Documents: 36,550
• Total Tokens: 107,910,839
• Tokenizer: separate by whitespace

Tokens Per Category

• child-available-speech: 1,267,991 tokens
• child-books: 2,096,048 tokens
• child-directed-speech: 7,250,794 tokens
• child-news: 2,879,450 tokens
• child-wiki: 2,680,477 tokens
• educational: 257,233 tokens
• padding-opensubtitles: 91,478,846 tokens

Tokens Per Group

• Transcription: 8,518,785 tokens
• Education: 257,233 tokens
• Books, Wiki, News: 7,655,975 tokens
• Subtitles: 0 tokens
• Padding: 91,478,846 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

• Project Gutenberg
  • source: https://www.gutenberg.org/
  • description: Collection of books for children and young adults
• 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

Magazine

• Fluter
  • source: n/a
  • description: Archives of the Fluter magazine

Reported Dreams

• Dreambank
  • source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810008001116?via%3Dihub
  • description: Large corpus of dream reports by adults and children

Transcription

• CallHome corpus (German)
  • source: https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC97T15
  • description: Transcribed telephone conversations between adults
• CHILDES
  • source: https://talkbank.org/childes/
  • description: Transcription of child directed language conversations

Wikis

• Klexikon
  • source: https://klexikon.zum.de/wiki/Klexikon:Willkommen_im_Klexikon
  • description: Online encyclopedia based on wiki, adapted for children
• MiniKlexikon
  • source: https://miniklexikon.zum.de
  • description: Online encyclopedia based on wiki, adapted for children
• Kiwithek
  • source: https://kiwithek.kidsweb.at/index.php/Hauptseite
  • description: Online encyclopedia based on wiki, adapted for children (Austrian German)
• Wikibooks (German)
  • source: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/German
  • description: Age-appropriate books for children
• Wikijunior (German)
  • source: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior:Languages/German
  • description: Online encyclopedia based on wiki, adapted for children

Data Curators

n/a

Comments

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