Datasets:

NaathNLP
/

eng_nuer_open_corpus

language:
  - en
  - nus
license: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
task_categories:
  - translation
tags:
  - conversational-ai
  - chatbot
  - multilingual
  - machine-translation
  - english
  - nuer
  - thok-naath
  - low-resource
  - african-languages
  - language-preservation
pretty_name: English–Nuer (Thok Naath) Conversational Parallel Corpus

English–Nuer (Thok Naath) Conversational Parallel Corpus

Overview

The English–Nuer (Thok Naath) Conversational Parallel Corpus is a bilingual dataset consisting of aligned conversational sentence pairs in English and Nuer (Thok Naath).

This dataset was created to support research on low-resource African languages, with a particular focus on conversational AI, machine translation, multilingual language models, and language preservation.

As one of the few publicly available conversational datasets for Nuer, it aims to encourage the development of inclusive AI technologies for underrepresented languages.

Languages

English (en)
Nuer / Thok Naath (nus)

Dataset Description

The corpus contains conversational text pairs covering everyday communication, including:

Greetings
Questions and answers
Daily conversations
Common expressions
Informal dialogue
Social interactions

Each record contains aligned English and Nuer sentences suitable for supervised NLP tasks.

Intended Uses

This dataset is intended for:

Academic research
Educational purposes
Machine Translation
Conversational AI
Chatbot development (research only)
Large Language Model research
Low-resource NLP
Language preservation
Linguistic analysis

Not Intended For

This dataset may NOT be used for:

Commercial AI products
Commercial chatbot services
Paid APIs
Proprietary language models
Commercial translation systems
Selling or redistributing the dataset for profit
Any commercial use without written permission from the author

If you wish to use this dataset commercially, please contact the author to obtain a separate commercial license.

License

This dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

You are free to:

Share
Copy
Redistribute
Adapt
Modify

Under the following conditions:

Attribution must be given.
Commercial use is prohibited.
Derivative works must be distributed under the same license.

License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Citation

If you use this dataset in your research, please cite:

@dataset{tajnaam2026english_nuer_conversation,
  author = {Tajnaam},
  title = {English–Nuer (Thok Naath) Conversational Parallel Corpus},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/Tajnaam/english_nuer-thok_naath_conversational_parallel_corpus}
}

Attribution

Please cite this dataset in any publication, thesis, article, or software that uses it.

Ethical Considerations

This dataset is intended to promote the digital preservation and advancement of the Nuer (Thok Naath) language. Users are encouraged to use the data responsibly and respectfully toward the Nuer-speaking community.

Disclaimer

This dataset is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. The author assumes no responsibility for misuse of the dataset.

Contact

For questions, collaborations, corrections, or commercial licensing inquiries, please contact the author through the Hugging Face repository.