NLPC-UOM/document_alignment_dataset-Sinhala-Tamil-English

Dataset summary

This is a gold-standard benchmark dataset for document alignment, between Sinhala-English-Tamil languages. Data had been crawled from the following news websites.

News Source	url
Army	https://www.army.lk/
Hiru	http://www.hirunews.lk
ITN	https://www.newsfirst.lk
Newsfirst	https://www.itnnews.lk

The aligned documents have been manually annotated.

Dataset

The folder structure for each news source is as follows.

army
 |--Sinhala
 |--English
 |--Tamil
 |--armynews_english_sinhala.txt
 |--armynews_english_tamil.txt
 |--armynews_sinhala_tamil.txt

Sinhala/English/Tamil - contain the crawled data for the respective news source army_news_english_sinhala.txt - contains the annotated aligned documents between English and Sinhala languages. armynews_english_tamil.txt - contains the annotated aligned documents between English and Tamil languages. armynews_sinhala_tamil.txt - contains the annotated aligned documents between Sinhala and Tamil languages.

Citation Information

@article{fernando2022exploiting,
title={Exploiting bilingual lexicons to improve multilingual embedding-based document and sentence alignment for low-resource languages},
author={Fernando, Aloka and Ranathunga, Surangika and Sachintha, Dilan and Piyarathna, Lakmali and Rajitha, Charith},
journal={Knowledge and Information Systems},
pages={1--42},
year={2022},
publisher={Springer}
}