README.md

---
language:
- sw
- ur
license: cc-by-sa-4.0
task_categories:
- text-classification
tags:
- paraphrase
- multilingual
- swahili
- urdu
- paws-x
dataset_info:
  - config_name: sw
    features:
      - name: id
        dtype: int64
      - name: sentence1
        dtype: string
      - name: sentence2
        dtype: string
      - name: label
        dtype: int64
    splits:
      - name: test
        num_examples: 2000
  - config_name: ur
    features:
      - name: id
        dtype: int64
      - name: sentence1
        dtype: string
      - name: sentence2
        dtype: string
      - name: label
        dtype: int64
    splits:
      - name: test
        num_examples: 2000
configs:
  - config_name: sw
    data_dir: data/sw
    default: true
  - config_name: ur
    data_dir: data/ur
---

# PAWS-X – Swahili & Urdu

Machine-translated **Swahili** and **Urdu** subsets of the PAWS-X (Paraphrase Adversaries from Word Scrambling – Cross-lingual) benchmark. This dataset was translated using Google Machine Translate.

## Dataset Description

PAWS-X is a multilingual paraphrase identification benchmark. Given two sentences, the task is to determine whether they are paraphrases of each other (label 1) or not (label 0). This repository contains Swahili (`sw`) and Urdu (`ur`) translations.

### Splits

| Config | Split | Language | # Examples |
|--------|-------|----------|------------|
| sw     | test  | Swahili  | 2,000      |
| ur     | test  | Urdu     | 2,000      |

### Data Format (CSV)

Columns: `id`, `sentence1`, `sentence2`, `label`

## Usage

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

# Load Swahili
ds_sw = load_dataset("Owos/paws-x", "sw")

# Load Urdu
ds_ur = load_dataset("Owos/paws-x", "ur")
```

## Source

Derived from [hgissbkh/paws-x](https://huggingface.co/datasets/hgissbkh/paws-x).

## Citation

```bibtex
@article{owodunni2025continually,
  title={Continually adding new languages to multilingual language models},
  author={Owodunni, Abraham Toluwase and Kumar, Sachin},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.11414},
  year={2025}
}

```