Datasets:
license: cc-by-nc-4.0
task_categories:
- sentence-similarity
language:
- lb
- ltz
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
configs:
- config_name: lb-en
data_files:
- split: train
path: data/v3/lb_en.json
default: true
- config_name: lb-fr
data_files:
- split: train
path: data/v3/lb_fr.json
Dataset Card for LuxAlign
Loading the Dataset
The dataset is currently at version v3, which can be loaded as:
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("fredxlpy/LuxAlign", name="lb-en") # or "lb-fr"
If you want to reproduce the results from the paper (v1) or use any previous version, you can specify the version folder:
# Load version v1 (as used in the paper)
ds_v1 = load_dataset("fredxlpy/LuxAlign", data_dir="data/v1", data_files={"train": "lb_en.json"})
Dataset Summary
LuxAlign is a parallel dataset featuring Luxembourgish-English and Luxembourgish-French sentence pairs, introduced in LuxEmbedder: A Cross-Lingual Approach to Enhanced Luxembourgish Sentence Embeddings (Philippy et al., 2025). Designed to align the Luxembourgish embedding space with those of other languages, it enables improved cross-lingual sentence representations for Luxemborgish. This dataset was used to train the Luxembourgish sentence embedding model LuxEmbedder. The data originates from news articles published by the Luxembourgish news platform RTL.lu.
The sentence pairs in this dataset are not always exact translations but instead reflect high semantic similarity; hence, this dataset may not be suitable for training a machine translation model without caution.
Dataset Description
- Repository: fredxlpy/LuxEmbedder
- Paper: LuxEmbedder: A Cross-Lingual Approach to Enhanced Luxembourgish Sentence Embeddings (Philippy et al., COLING 2025)
Citation Information
@inproceedings{philippy-etal-2025-luxembedder,
title = "{L}ux{E}mbedder: A Cross-Lingual Approach to Enhanced {L}uxembourgish Sentence Embeddings",
author = "Philippy, Fred and
Guo, Siwen and
Klein, Jacques and
Bissyande, Tegawende",
editor = "Rambow, Owen and
Wanner, Leo and
Apidianaki, Marianna and
Al-Khalifa, Hend and
Eugenio, Barbara Di and
Schockaert, Steven",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
month = jan,
year = "2025",
address = "Abu Dhabi, UAE",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.coling-main.753/",
pages = "11369--11379",
}
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to RTL Luxembourg for providing the raw seed data that served as the foundation for this research. Those interested in obtaining this data are encouraged to reach out to RTL Luxembourg or Mr. Tom Weber via ai@rtl.lu.