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| language: |
| - en |
| - nus |
| license: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0 |
| task_categories: |
| - translation |
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| tags: |
| - conversational-ai |
| - chatbot |
| - multilingual |
| - machine-translation |
| - english |
| - nuer |
| - thok-naath |
| - low-resource |
| - african-languages |
| - language-preservation |
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| pretty_name: English–Nuer (Thok Naath) Conversational Parallel Corpus |
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| # English–Nuer (Thok Naath) Conversational Parallel Corpus |
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| ## Overview |
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| The **English–Nuer (Thok Naath) Conversational Parallel Corpus** is a bilingual dataset consisting of aligned conversational sentence pairs in English and Nuer (Thok Naath). |
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| 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. |
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| As one of the few publicly available conversational datasets for Nuer, it aims to encourage the development of inclusive AI technologies for underrepresented languages. |
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| # Languages |
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| - English (`en`) |
| - Nuer / Thok Naath (`nus`) |
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| # Dataset Description |
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| The corpus contains conversational text pairs covering everyday communication, including: |
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| - Greetings |
| - Questions and answers |
| - Daily conversations |
| - Common expressions |
| - Informal dialogue |
| - Social interactions |
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| Each record contains aligned English and Nuer sentences suitable for supervised NLP tasks. |
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| # Intended Uses |
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| This dataset is intended for: |
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| - Academic research |
| - Educational purposes |
| - Machine Translation |
| - Conversational AI |
| - Chatbot development (research only) |
| - Large Language Model research |
| - Low-resource NLP |
| - Language preservation |
| - Linguistic analysis |
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| # Not Intended For |
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| This dataset may **NOT** be used for: |
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| - 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 |
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| If you wish to use this dataset commercially, please contact the author to obtain a separate commercial license. |
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| # License |
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| This dataset is licensed under the **Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)**. |
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| You are free to: |
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| - Share |
| - Copy |
| - Redistribute |
| - Adapt |
| - Modify |
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| Under the following conditions: |
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| - Attribution must be given. |
| - Commercial use is prohibited. |
| - Derivative works must be distributed under the same license. |
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| License: |
| https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
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| # Citation |
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| If you use this dataset in your research, please cite: |
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| ```bibtex |
| @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} |
| } |
| ``` |
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| # Attribution |
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| Please cite this dataset in any publication, thesis, article, or software that uses it. |
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| # Ethical Considerations |
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| 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. |
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| # Disclaimer |
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| This dataset is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. The author assumes no responsibility for misuse of the dataset. |
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| # Contact |
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| For questions, collaborations, corrections, or commercial licensing inquiries, please contact the author through the Hugging Face repository. |
