README.md

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# Merged-LID-20

This dataset provides a curated collection of language-specific datasets from Hugging Face, optimized for building and training language identification models. Each dataset includes text samples in a single language, making this an ideal resource for projects involving multilingual natural language processing tasks such as language identification.

## Overview

The dataset collection includes 20 languages, covering a range of language families, scripts, and regions, ensuring diversity and comprehensiveness. All datasets are hosted on Hugging Face's dataset library, making them easily accessible and well-documented. The data is organized into language-specific datasets with a standard structure to facilitate seamless integration.

### Languages Included:
- Arabic
- Spanish
- English
- German
- Hindi
- Bulgarian
- Modern Greek
- Italian
- Japanese
- Dutch
- Polish
- Turkish
- Urdu
- Vietnamese
- Chinese
- Swahili
- Thai
- Russian
- Portuguese
- French

Each dataset contains the following structure:
- **Text Column**: Raw text data in the specified language.
- **Language Column**: Language label.

## Dataset Details

Here’s a detailed breakdown of each language dataset in this collection:

| Language   | Dataset ID                           | Dataset Type       |
|------------|-------------------------------------|--------------------|
| Arabic     | `Harsit/xnli2.0_train_arabic`       | XNLI              |
| Spanish    | `Iker/OpenHermes-2.5-Spanish`       | Conversation      |
| English    | `lucadiliello/english_wikipedia`    | Wikipedia         |
| German     | `seedboxai/german_to_english_translations_v1` | Translation |
| Hindi      | `damerajee/Instruct-hindi`          | Messages          |
| Bulgarian  | `Harsit/xnli2.0_train_bulgarian`    | XNLI              |
| Greek      | `Harsit/xnli2.0_train_greek`        | XNLI              |
| Italian    | `scribis/italian-literature-corpus-mini` | Literature  |
| Japanese   | `Hoshikuzu/TEDtalk-en-ja`, <br>`alek1001/JParaCrawl-Filtered-English-Japanese-Parallel-Corpus-text`           | TED Talk,<br>JParaCrawl          |
| Dutch      | `BramVanroy/wikipedia_culturax_dutch` | Wikipedia      |
| Polish     | `WiktorS/polish-news`, <br>`adowu/polish_sentences`               | News, <br>Messages              |
| Turkish    | `zahide/turkish-instructions-220k`, <br>`fthbrmnby/turkish_product_reviews`  | Instruction, <br>Reviews       |
| Urdu       | `El-chapoo/Urdu-1M-news-text`       | News              |
| Vietnamese | `Jack0508/TED2020_vi`               | TED Talk          |
| Chinese    | `Magpie-Align/Magpie-Qwen2-Pro-200K-Chinese` | Conversation |
| Swahili    | `Harsit/xnli2.0_train_swahili`, <br>`mwitiderrick/swahili`      | XNLI, <br>Web Crawl              |
| Thai       | `pythainlp/thai-wiki-dataset-v3`, <br> `pythainlp/thaisum`    | Wikipedia, <br>thaisum         |
| Russian    | `RussianNLP/Mixed-Summarization-Dataset` | Summarization |
| Portuguese | `adalbertojunior/dolphin_portuguese` | Conversation    |
| French     | `angeluriot/french_instruct`        | Conversation      |


## License and Acknowledgements

All datasets are sourced from Hugging Face's open dataset repository. Please check each dataset's individual license and citation requirements on Hugging Face before use.

## Citation

If you use this collection for your research, please cite this dataset as well as the individual datasets that make up this repository.

### Our Dataset
```bibtex
  @dataset{kamphuis_karki_2024,
    title     = {Merged-LID-20},
    author    = {Michiel Kamphuis and Drishya Karki},
    year      = {2024},
    publisher = {AssistantsLab},
    url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/AssistantsLab/Merged-LID-20}
  }
```

### Individual Dataset Citations

<details>
  <summary>
    Citations  
  </summary>

1. **Arabic**  
```bibtex
@dataset{harsit_arabic_xnli,
  author    = {Harsit},
  title     = {XNLI 2.0 Train - Arabic},
  year      = {2024},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/Harsit/xnli2.0_train_arabic}
}
```

2. **Spanish**  
```bibtex
@misc{OpenHermes 2.5 Spanish,
  title = {OpenHermes 2.5 Spanish: Translation of instruction dataset for Generalist LLM Assistants in any language.},
  author = {Iker García-Ferrero},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {HuggingFace},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/Iker/OpenHermes-2.5-Spanish}
}

@misc{OpenHermes 2.5,
  title = {OpenHermes 2.5: An Open Dataset of Synthetic Data for Generalist LLM Assistants},
  author = {Teknium},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {HuggingFace},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/teknium/OpenHermes-2.5}
}
```

3. **English**  
```bibtex
@dataset{lucadiliello_english_wikipedia,
  author    = {Lucadiliello},
  title     = {English Wikipedia Data},
  year      = {2024},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/lucadiliello/english_wikipedia}
}
```

4. **German**  
```bibtex
@dataset{seedboxai_german_translation,
  author    = {Seedboxai},
  title     = {German to English Translations},
  year      = {2024},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/seedboxai/german_to_english_translations_v1}
}
```

5. **Hindi**  
```bibtex
@dataset{damerajee_hindi_instructions,
  author    = {Damerajee},
  title     = {Instruct - Hindi},
  year      = {2024},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/damerajee/Instruct-hindi}
}
```

6. **Bulgarian**  
```bibtex
@dataset{harsit_bulgarian_xnli,
  author    = {Harsit},
  title     = {XNLI 2.0 Train - Bulgarian},
  year      = {2024},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/Harsit/xnli2.0_train_bulgarian}
}
```

7. **Modern Greek**  
```bibtex
@dataset{harsit_greek_xnli,
  author    = {Harsit},
  title     = {XNLI 2.0 Train - Greek},
  year      = {2024},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/Harsit/xnli2.0_train_greek}
}
```

8. **Italian**  
```bibtex
@dataset{scribis_italian_literature,
  author    = {Scribis},
  title     = {Italian Literature Corpus Mini},
  year      = {2024},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/scribis/italian-literature-corpus-mini}
}
```

9. **Japanese**  
```bibtex
@misc{duh18multitarget, 
   author = {Kevin Duh},
   title = {The Multitarget TED Talks Task}, 
   howpublished = {\url{http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~kevinduh/a/multitarget-tedtalks/}}, 
   year = {2018}, 
}
```
```bibtex
@inproceedings{morishita-etal-2020-jparacrawl,
    title = "{JP}ara{C}rawl: A Large Scale Web-Based {E}nglish-{J}apanese Parallel Corpus",
    author = "Morishita, Makoto  and
      Suzuki, Jun  and
      Nagata, Masaaki",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
    month = may,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Marseille, France",
    publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
    url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lrec-1.443",
    pages = "3603--3609",
    ISBN = "979-10-95546-34-4",
}
```

10. **Dutch**  
```bibtex
@dataset{bramvanroy_dutch_wikipedia,
  author    = {BramVanroy},
  title     = {Wikipedia - Dutch (CulturaX)},
  year      = {2024},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/BramVanroy/wikipedia_culturax_dutch}
}
```

11. **Polish**  
```bibtex
@dataset{wiktors_polish_news,
  author    = {WiktorS},
  title     = {Polish News},
  year      = {2024},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/WiktorS/polish-news}
}
```
```bibtex
@dataset{polish_sentences,
  author    = {Artur WYroślak},
  title     = {Polish Sentences},
  year      = {2024},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/adowu/polish_sentences}
}
```

12. **Turkish**  
```bibtex
@dataset{zahide_turkish_instructions,
  author    = {Zahide},
  title     = {Turkish Instructions (220k)},
  year      = {2024},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/zahide/turkish-instructions-220k}
}
```
```bibtex
@dataset{zahide_turkish_instructions,
  author    = {Fatih Barmanbay},
  title     = {Turkish Product Reviews},
  year      = {2024},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/fthbrmnby/turkish_product_reviews}
}
```

13. **Urdu**  
```bibtex
@dataset{elchapoo_urdu_news,
  author    = {El-chapoo},
  title     = {Urdu News (1M)},
  year      = {2024},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/El-chapoo/Urdu-1M-news-text}
}
```

14. **Vietnamese**  
```bibtex
@dataset{jack0508_vietnamese_tedtalks,
  author    = {Jack0508},
  title     = {TED2020 - Vietnamese},
  year      = {2024},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/Jack0508/TED2020_vi}
}
```

15. **Chinese**  
```bibtex
@dataset{magpiealign_chinese_conversations,
  author    = {Magpie-Align},
  title     = {Magpie-Qwen2 Chinese Conversations},
  year      = {2024},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/Magpie-Align/Magpie-Qwen2-Pro-200K-Chinese}
}
```
16. **Swahili**  
```bibtex
@dataset{harsit_swahili_xnli,
  author    = {Harsit},
  title     = {XNLI 2.0 Train - Swahili},
  year      = {2024},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/Harsit/xnli2.0_train_swahili}
}
```
```bibtex
@dataset{mwitiderrick_swahili,
  author    = {Derrick Mwiti},
  title     = {mwitiderrick/swahili},
  year      = {2024},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/mwitiderrick/swahili}
}
```

17. **Thai**  
```bibtex
@dataset{pythainlp_thai_wikipedia,
  author    = {Pythainlp},
  title     = {Thai Wikipedia Dataset V3},
  year      = {2024},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/pythainlp/thai-wiki-dataset-v3}
}
```
```bibtex
@mastersthesis{chumpolsathien_2020,
    title={Using Knowledge Distillation from Keyword Extraction to Improve the Informativeness of Neural Cross-lingual Summarization},
    author={Chumpolsathien, Nakhun},
    year={2020},
    school={Beijing Institute of Technology}
```

18. **Russian**  
```bibtex
@misc{akhmetgareeva2024summary,
      title={Towards Russian Summarization: can architecture solve data limitations problems?}, 
      author={Albina Akhmetgareeva and Ilia Kuleshov and Vlad Leschuk and Alexander Abramov and Alena Fenogenova},
      year={2024},
}
```

19. **Portuguese**  
```bibtex
@dataset{adalbertojunior_portuguese_conversations,
  author    = {Adalbertojunior},
  title     = {Dolphin Portuguese Conversations},
  year      = {2024},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/adalbertojunior/dolphin_portuguese}
}
```

20. **French**  
```bibtex
@dataset{angeluriot_french_instruct,
  author    = {Angeluriot},
  title     = {French Instruct},
  year      = {2024},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/angeluriot/french_instruct}
}
```
</details>