cis-lmu/glotlid-wordlists

GlotLID Wordlists

This is a set of wordlists extracted from the GlotLID-corpus for high-precision filtering of FineWeb2.

Download

The recommended way to download the data is via git clone:

git clone https://huggingface.co/datasets/cis-lmu/glotlid-wordlists

Method and Usage for Precision Filtering

For details on the filtering method, please refer to the FineWeb2 paper. Each word listed occurs significantly more often in its own language dataset than in any other language. The higher a word ranks in each language's filter list, the more frequently it appears in that language.

You can also check out the filter.py script for an example of how to use wordlists in practice.

Citation

If you find the wordlists useful, please cite both the GlotLID and FineWeb2 papers:

GlotLID paper (link):

@inproceedings{
  kargaran2023glotlid,
  title={{GlotLID}: Language Identification for Low-Resource Languages},
  author={Kargaran, Amir Hossein and Imani, Ayyoob and Yvon, Fran{\c{c}}ois and Sch{\"u}tze, Hinrich},
  booktitle={The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
  year={2023},
  url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=dl4e3EBz5j}
}

FineWeb2 paper (link):

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