| --- |
| pretty_name: IATE 2016 — Inter-Active Terminology for Europe |
| license: other |
| license_name: ec-decision-2011-833-eu |
| license_link: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32011D0833 |
| task_categories: |
| - translation |
| - feature-extraction |
| - token-classification |
| language: |
| - bg |
| - cs |
| - da |
| - de |
| - el |
| - en |
| - es |
| - et |
| - fi |
| - fr |
| - ga |
| - hr |
| - hu |
| - it |
| - lt |
| - lv |
| - mt |
| - nl |
| - pl |
| - pt |
| - ro |
| - sk |
| - sl |
| - sv |
| tags: |
| - terminology |
| - european-union |
| - multilingual |
| - parallel-terms |
| - eu-translation |
| size_categories: |
| - 1M<n<10M |
| configs: |
| - config_name: monolingual |
| data_files: |
| - split: train |
| path: data/monolingual/train.parquet |
| - config_name: en-de |
| data_files: |
| - split: train |
| path: data/en-de/train.parquet |
| - config_name: en-fr |
| data_files: |
| - split: train |
| path: data/en-fr/train.parquet |
| - config_name: en-fi |
| data_files: |
| - split: train |
| path: data/en-fi/train.parquet |
| - config_name: en-cs |
| data_files: |
| - split: train |
| path: data/en-cs/train.parquet |
| --- |
| |
| # IATE 2016 — Inter-Active Terminology for Europe |
|
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| Tidy HuggingFace release of the **IATE** terminology export dump from **2016-04-25** (the snapshot in `iate.zip`). IATE is the official multilingual terminology database of the EU institutions and bodies — see <https://iate.europa.eu>, <https://iate.europa.eu/faq>, and <https://iate.europa.eu/download-iate>. |
|
|
| This is the **2016 snapshot only**. IATE is continuously updated; for the latest dump pull from the official IATE download page. |
|
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| Mirror of the raw upstream zip: [`alvations/stash · iate/iate.zip`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/alvations/stash/tree/main/iate). |
|
|
| ## Configs |
|
|
| | Config | Rows | Schema | Notes | |
| | ------------- | ---------: | ------ | ----- | |
| | `monolingual` | 6,148,883 | one row per `(term_id, lang)` entry | full multilingual TSV; spans all EU official languages (~24) | |
| | `en-de` | 546,974 | one row per aligned EN ↔ DE term pair | pre-aligned bilingual subset | |
| | `en-fr` | 730,779 | one row per aligned EN ↔ FR term pair | pre-aligned bilingual subset | |
| | `en-fi` | 226,688 | one row per aligned EN ↔ FI term pair | pre-aligned bilingual subset | |
| | `en-cs` | 13,524 | one row per aligned EN ↔ CS term pair | pre-aligned bilingual subset | |
|
|
| The upstream zip also contained `iate_en-ru.csv` / `.json` but they were empty (header only) — skipped. |
|
|
| ## Usage |
|
|
| ```python |
| from datasets import load_dataset |
| |
| # Full multilingual dump |
| mono = load_dataset("alvations/iate-2016", "monolingual", split="train") |
| print(mono[0]) |
| # {'term_id': 'IATE-14', 'lang': 'ro', 'term': 'Agenție de aprovizionare', |
| # 'term_type': 'fullForm', 'reliability': 3} |
| |
| # Pre-aligned bilingual subsets (great as MT terminology gazetteers) |
| en_de = load_dataset("alvations/iate-2016", "en-de", split="train") |
| print(en_de[0]) |
| # {'term_id': 'IATE-84', |
| # 'src_lang': 'en', 'src_term': 'competence of the Member States', |
| # 'tgt_lang': 'de', 'tgt_term': 'Zuständigkeit der Mitgliedstaaten'} |
| |
| # Recover all language entries for a single term |
| mono_df = mono.to_pandas() |
| mono_df[mono_df["term_id"] == "IATE-84"] |
| # 23 rows — one per EU official language |
| ``` |
|
|
| ## Schemas |
|
|
| ### `monolingual` |
|
|
| | Column | Type | Description | |
| | ------------- | ------ | ----------- | |
| | `term_id` | string | IATE entry id, e.g. `"IATE-14"` | |
| | `lang` | string | ISO-639-1 code (`en`, `de`, `fr`, `bg`, `el`, …) | |
| | `term` | string | the term text in that language | |
| | `term_type` | string | upstream type label: most commonly `fullForm` (the canonical form); sometimes abbreviation / short-form variants | |
| | `reliability` | int8 | reliability code, 1–5 (see "Reliability codes" below) | |
|
|
| ### `en-{de,fr,fi,cs}` |
|
|
| | Column | Type | Description | |
| | ----------- | ------ | ----------- | |
| | `term_id` | string | IATE entry id (same one shared across languages) | |
| | `src_lang` | string | always `"en"` | |
| | `src_term` | string | English term | |
| | `tgt_lang` | string | `"de"` / `"fr"` / `"fi"` / `"cs"` | |
| | `tgt_term` | string | target-language term | |
|
|
| The 4 bilingual configs share one schema, so you can `concatenate_datasets([...])` them with a single column projection. |
|
|
| ## Reliability codes (IATE convention) |
|
|
| | Code | Meaning | |
| | ---: | ------- | |
| | 1 | Not verified | |
| | 2 | Minimum reliability | |
| | 3 | Reliable (terminologist-checked) | |
| | 4 | Very reliable | |
| | 5 | Verified / institutional gold standard | |
|
|
| Most rows in this snapshot carry code `3` (reliable). |
|
|
| ## License & attribution |
|
|
| IATE data is reusable under the [European Commission Decision 2011/833/EU of 12 December 2011 on the reuse of Commission documents](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32011D0833). Reuse is free for both commercial and non-commercial purposes, provided you preserve the source attribution. |
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| **Required attribution**: |
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| > © European Union, 1995–2016. Source: IATE — Inter-Active Terminology for Europe (<https://iate.europa.eu>). |
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| The data is provided "as is" with no warranty of accuracy or fitness for any particular purpose — the EU institutions accept no liability arising from its use. |
|
|
| ## Provenance |
|
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| - Upstream zip: `iate.zip` containing 12 files (1 monolingual TSV, 4 bilingual `.csv`/`.json` pairs for EN-DE/FR/FI/CS, plus empty EN-RU); 564 MB uncompressed, snapshot 2016-04-25. |
| - Mirror: <https://huggingface.co/datasets/alvations/stash/tree/main/iate> |
| - Conversion: stream-build via `zipfile` + pyarrow `ParquetWriter` (no on-disk extraction). The 321 MB master CSV is written in 200K-row batches. |
| - Build script: `build.py` alongside this README. |
|
|
| ## Citation |
|
|
| There is no single canonical paper for IATE itself. Cite it as the EU institutional resource: |
|
|
| ```bibtex |
| @misc{iate, |
| title = {{IATE} -- Interactive Terminology for {E}urope}, |
| author = {{Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union and EU Institutions}}, |
| year = {1995--2016}, |
| note = {Snapshot of 2016-04-25. Released under EC Decision 2011/833/EU.}, |
| url = {https://iate.europa.eu/}, |
| } |
| ``` |
|
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| For newer / continuously-updated dumps, pull from <https://iate.europa.eu/download-iate>. |
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