---
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  - name: id
    dtype: string
  - name: url
    dtype: string
  - name: title
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  - name: text
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  - name: chopped_document
    sequence: string
  - name: text_sl
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configs:
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license: cc-by-4.0
language:
- sl
---

# Slovene translation of English Wikipedia

## Overview

This is a Slovene translation of the English Wikipedia in Markdown format. The English dataset was taken from [zidsi/wikipedia_markdown](https://huggingface.co/datasets/zidsi/wikipedia_markdown). The dump that was used is **23. 1. 2025**. The dataset was translated using [cjvt/GaMS-DPO-Translator](https://huggingface.co/cjvt/GaMS-DPO-Translator) model.

## Data Size

The dataset contains **6.9 million** documents. The translated documents contain around **3.6 B** Slovene words.

## Data Structure

Dataset contains the following fields:
- `id`
- `url`
- `title`: Original (English) article title
- `text`: Original (English) article text
- `chopped_document`: The list of smaller text units that fit into the context window of GaMS-DPO-Translator.
- `text_sl`: Slovene translation of the English article.

## Acknowledgment

The dataset was developed within the [PoVeJMo](https://www.cjvt.si/povejmo/en/project/) research program (Adaptive Natural Language Processing with Large Language Models), particularly within the research project titled SloLLaMai -- Open-access computationally efficient models for Slovenian. The program is funded within the Recovery and Resilience Plan by the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS) and NextGenerationEU. The authors also acknowledge the financial support from the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (research core funding No. P6-0411 -- Language Resources and Technologies for Slovene).

This project is also funded by the European Union under Horizon Europe (101186647 – AI4DH).

## License

The dataset is released under the **CC BY 4.0** license.

## Citation

```bibtex
misc{vreš2026buildingstronginstructionlanguage,
      title={Building a Strong Instruction Language Model for a Less-Resourced Language}, 
      author={Domen Vreš and Tjaša Arčon and Timotej Petrič and Dario Vajda and Marko Robnik-Šikonja and Iztok Lebar Bajec},
      year={2026},
      eprint={2603.01691},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.01691}, 
}
```