README.md

---
annotations_creators:
- human-annotated
language:
- slk
license: cc-by-sa-4.0
multilinguality: translated
source_datasets:
- slovak-nlp/sklep
task_categories:
- sentence-similarity
task_ids:
- natural-language-inference
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: sentence1
    dtype: string
  - name: sentence2
    dtype: string
  - name: score
    dtype: float64
  splits:
  - name: test
    num_bytes: 178529
    num_examples: 1352
  - name: validation
    num_bytes: 227805
    num_examples: 1481
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 811984
    num_examples: 5604
  download_size: 787791
  dataset_size: 1218318
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: test
    path: data/test-*
  - split: validation
    path: data/validation-*
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
tags:
- mteb
- text
---
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  <h1 style="font-size: 3.5rem; color: #1a1a1a; margin: 0 0 20px 0; letter-spacing: 2px; font-weight: 700;">SlovakSTS</h1>
  <div style="font-size: 1.5rem; color: #4a4a4a; margin-bottom: 5px; font-weight: 300;">An <a href="https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb" style="color: #2c5282; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;" onmouseover="this.style.textDecoration='underline'" onmouseout="this.style.textDecoration='none'">MTEB</a> dataset</div>
  <div style="font-size: 0.9rem; color: #2c5282; margin-top: 10px;">Massive Text Embedding Benchmark</div>
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A professional Slovak translation of the STS Benchmark (STSb), originally part of the GLUE benchmark. The task is Semantic Textual Similarity (STS): given a pair of sentences, the goal is to predict their semantic similarity on a continuous scale from 0 (completely unrelated) to 5 (semantically equivalent). Sentence pairs are drawn from news headlines, image captions, and forum posts.

|               |                                             |
|---------------|---------------------------------------------|
| Task category | STS (text-to-text)                              |
| Domains       | Blog, News, Written                               |
| Reference     | [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025](https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-acl.1371) |

Source datasets:
- [slovak-nlp/sklep](https://huggingface.co/datasets/slovak-nlp/sklep)


## How to evaluate on this task

You can evaluate an embedding model on this dataset using the following code:

```python
import mteb

task = mteb.get_task("SlovakSTS")
model = mteb.get_model(YOUR_MODEL)
mteb.evaluate(model, task)
```

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To learn more about how to run models on `mteb` task check out the [GitHub repository](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb).

## Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite the dataset as well as [mteb](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb), as this dataset likely includes additional processing as a part of the [MMTEB Contribution](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/tree/main/docs/mmteb).

```bibtex

@inproceedings{suppa-etal-2025-sklep,
  address = {Vienna, Austria},
  author = {Suppa, Marek  and
Ridzik, Andrej  and
Hl{\'a}dek, Daniel  and
Jav{\r{u}}rek, Tom{\'a}{\v{s}}  and
Ondrejov{\'a}, Vikt{\'o}ria  and
S{\'a}sikov{\'a}, Krist{\'i}na  and
Tamajka, Martin  and
Simko, Marian},
  booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025},
  editor = {Che, Wanxiang  and
Nabende, Joyce  and
Shutova, Ekaterina  and
Pilehvar, Mohammad Taher},
  isbn = {979-8-89176-256-5},
  month = jul,
  pages = {26716--26743},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  title = {sk{LEP}: A {S}lovak General Language Understanding Benchmark},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-acl.1371/},
  year = {2025},
}


@article{enevoldsen2025mmtebmassivemultilingualtext,
  title={MMTEB: Massive Multilingual Text Embedding Benchmark},
  author={Kenneth Enevoldsen and Isaac Chung and Imene Kerboua and Márton Kardos and Ashwin Mathur and David Stap and Jay Gala and Wissam Siblini and Dominik Krzemiński and Genta Indra Winata and Saba Sturua and Saiteja Utpala and Mathieu Ciancone and Marion Schaeffer and Gabriel Sequeira and Diganta Misra and Shreeya Dhakal and Jonathan Rystrøm and Roman Solomatin and Ömer Çağatan and Akash Kundu and Martin Bernstorff and Shitao Xiao and Akshita Sukhlecha and Bhavish Pahwa and Rafał Poświata and Kranthi Kiran GV and Shawon Ashraf and Daniel Auras and Björn Plüster and Jan Philipp Harries and Loïc Magne and Isabelle Mohr and Mariya Hendriksen and Dawei Zhu and Hippolyte Gisserot-Boukhlef and Tom Aarsen and Jan Kostkan and Konrad Wojtasik and Taemin Lee and Marek Šuppa and Crystina Zhang and Roberta Rocca and Mohammed Hamdy and Andrianos Michail and John Yang and Manuel Faysse and Aleksei Vatolin and Nandan Thakur and Manan Dey and Dipam Vasani and Pranjal Chitale and Simone Tedeschi and Nguyen Tai and Artem Snegirev and Michael Günther and Mengzhou Xia and Weijia Shi and Xing Han Lù and Jordan Clive and Gayatri Krishnakumar and Anna Maksimova and Silvan Wehrli and Maria Tikhonova and Henil Panchal and Aleksandr Abramov and Malte Ostendorff and Zheng Liu and Simon Clematide and Lester James Miranda and Alena Fenogenova and Guangyu Song and Ruqiya Bin Safi and Wen-Ding Li and Alessia Borghini and Federico Cassano and Hongjin Su and Jimmy Lin and Howard Yen and Lasse Hansen and Sara Hooker and Chenghao Xiao and Vaibhav Adlakha and Orion Weller and Siva Reddy and Niklas Muennighoff},
  publisher = {arXiv},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.13595},
  year={2025},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13595},
  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2502.13595},
}

@article{muennighoff2022mteb,
  author = {Muennighoff, Niklas and Tazi, Nouamane and Magne, Loïc and Reimers, Nils},
  title = {MTEB: Massive Text Embedding Benchmark},
  publisher = {arXiv},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.07316},
  year = {2022}
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.07316},
  doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2210.07316},
}
```

# Dataset Statistics
<details>
  <summary> Dataset Statistics</summary>

The following code contains the descriptive statistics from the task. These can also be obtained using:

```python
import mteb

task = mteb.get_task("SlovakSTS")

desc_stats = task.metadata.descriptive_stats
```

```json
{
    "test": {
        "num_samples": 1352,
        "number_of_characters": 144801,
        "unique_pairs": 1352,
        "text1_statistics": {
            "total_text_length": 72578,
            "min_text_length": 10,
            "average_text_length": 53.68195266272189,
            "max_text_length": 216,
            "unique_texts": 1223
        },
        "text2_statistics": {
            "total_text_length": 72223,
            "min_text_length": 7,
            "average_text_length": 53.419378698224854,
            "max_text_length": 231,
            "unique_texts": 1301
        },
        "image1_statistics": null,
        "image2_statistics": null,
        "label_statistics": {
            "min_score": 0.0,
            "avg_score": 2.5643513308364083,
            "max_score": 5.0
        }
    }
}
```

</details>

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