| --- |
| language: |
| - de |
| license: apache-2.0 |
| tags: |
| - austrian-german |
| - instruction-tuning |
| - sft |
| - chat |
| - austria |
| pretty_name: Austrian German Instruction Dataset |
| size_categories: |
| - n<1K |
| task_categories: |
| - text-generation |
| - question-answering |
| extra_gated_prompt: >- |
| This dataset is in validation phase. |
| Access is granted to verified researchers and organizations. |
| Please describe your intended use case. |
| extra_gated_fields: |
| Full name: text |
| Organization: text |
| Intended use: text |
| I agree to use this data for research purposes only: |
| type: checkbox |
| --- |
| |
| # AT-Instruct: Austrian German Instructions |
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| 500 instruction-response pairs written in Austrian German. Not translated from English or Bundesdeutsch — written from scratch with Austrian vocabulary, institutions, and perspective. |
|
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| ## Why this exists |
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| Every German instruction dataset I found was either translated from English (losing all cultural context) or written in Bundesdeutsch. If you fine-tune on those, your model will tell users to go to the "Bürgeramt" — which doesn't exist in Austria. Here it's the Magistrat. |
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| So I wrote these manually. Erdapfel, not Kartoffel. ABGB, not BGB. Obers, not Sahne. |
|
|
| ## What's in it |
|
|
| | Category | Count | |
| |----------|-------| |
| | Wortschatz (vocab) | 108 | |
| | Alltag (daily life) | 62 | |
| | Kochen (cooking) | 53 | |
| | Geographie | 45 | |
| | Behördenweg (bureaucracy) | 40 | |
| | Verkehr (transport) | 40 | |
| | Kultur | 40 | |
| | Gesundheit | 40 | |
| | Bildung (education) | 36 | |
| | Natur & Freizeit | 36 | |
|
|
| ## Format |
|
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| ```json |
| { |
| "instruction": "Erklaere mir, wie ich mich in Wien anmelden kann.", |
| "response": "Du gehst zum Magistratischen Bezirksamt deines Bezirks...", |
| "category": "behoerdenweg", |
| "register": "formal_austrian", |
| "source": "hand_written" |
| } |
| ``` |
|
|
| ## Usage |
|
|
| ```python |
| from datasets import load_dataset |
| ds = load_dataset("Laborator/austrian-german-instructions") |
| ``` |
|
|
| ## Files |
|
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| - `data/at_instruct_v1.jsonl` |
| - `data/at_instruct_v1.parquet` |
|
|
| ## Known limitations |
|
|
| 500 pairs is small for serious fine-tuning. I'm working on v2 with 2000+. But it's enough to see if an Austrian German adapter actually helps — and it does. |
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| ## License |
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| Apache 2.0 |
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