HKAllen/cantonese-chinese-parallel-corpus

Dataset Summary

This dataset consists of parallel sentence pairs in Cantonese and Chinese. It is designed for various tasks, including machine translation.

The corpus contains a large number of sentence pairs collected from various domains and most has been improved through manual correction and translation.

Languages

• Cantonese (yue)
• Simplified Chinese (zh)

Dataset Structure

Each entry in the dataset is a JSON object containing two fields: "yue" for the Cantonese sentence and "zh" for the corresponding Chinese sentence.

Citation

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@inproceedings{dai2025next,
  title={Next-Level Cantonese-to-Mandarin Translation: Fine-Tuning and Post-Processing with LLMs},  
  author={Dai, Yuqian and Chan, Chun Fai and Wong, Ying Ki and Pun, Tsz Ho},  
  booktitle={Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages},  
  pages={427--436},
  year={2025}  
}