| --- |
| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| task_categories: |
| - translation |
| - token-classification |
| - text-classification |
| language: |
| - so |
| - en |
| tags: |
| - somali |
| - stem |
| - low-resource |
| - nlp |
| - africa |
| - biology |
| - chemistry |
| - physics |
| - mathematics |
| - geography |
| - education |
| - terminology |
| pretty_name: Somali STEM Terminology Dataset |
| size_categories: |
| - 1K<n<10K |
| --- |
| |
| # Somali STEM Terminology Dataset (Sample) |
|
|
| ## Overview |
|
|
| A bilingual English–Somali terminology dataset covering 5 STEM domains. |
|
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| This is a **100-row public sample**. The full dataset contains 3,000+ terms. |
|
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| Somali is spoken by 20+ million people but is critically under-represented in AI training data. This is the only known structured Somali STEM lexicon in machine-readable format. |
|
|
| ## Fields |
|
|
| | Field | Description | |
| |-------|-------------| |
| | English | Scientific term in English | |
| | Somali | Somali translation | |
| | Subject | Physics / Mathematics / Chemistry / Biology / Geography | |
| | Source | Historical Somali educational materials | |
| | definition_en | Definition in English | |
| | definition_so | Definition in Somali | |
| | example_en | Usage example in English | |
| | example_so | Usage example in Somali | |
| | difficulty_level | basic / intermediate / advanced | |
| |
| ## Distribution |
| |
| | Subject | Rows | |
| |---------|------| |
| | Physics | 20 | |
| | Mathematics | 20 | |
| | Chemistry | 20 | |
| | Biology | 20 | |
| | Geography | 20 | |
| | **Total** | **100** | |
| |
| ## Example |
| ```json |
| { |
| "English": "Photosynthesis", |
| "Somali": "Iftiinka-cunid", |
| "Subject": "Biology", |
| "Source": "Historical Somali educational materials", |
| "definition_en": "The process by which green plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to produce glucose and oxygen.", |
| "definition_so": "Habka ay dhirta cagaartu ku isticmaalaan iftiinka qorraxda, biyaha, iyo carbon dioxide si ay u soo saaraan glucose iyo ogsajiin.", |
| "example_en": "During photosynthesis, a leaf absorbs sunlight and converts water and CO2 into sugar stored for energy.", |
| "example_so": "Muddada iftiinka-cunidda, caleen waxay nuugtaa iftiinka qorraxda oo u bedeshaa biyaha iyo CO2 sonkor kaydiyay tamarta.", |
| "difficulty_level": "basic" |
| } |
| ``` |
| |
| ## Use Cases |
| |
| - Machine translation Somali ↔ English |
| - NLP for low-resource languages |
| - STEM education tools for Somalia and diaspora |
| - Domain-specific fine-tuning of language models |
| - Named Entity Recognition for scientific text |
| |
| ## Source |
| |
| Compiled and structured from historical Somali educational materials. |
| |
| ## Notes |
| |
| - This repository contains a public sample only |
| - Full dataset available for research collaboration and licensing upon request |
| |
| ## License |
| |
| CC BY 4.0 — Free to use with attribution, including commercial use. |
| |
| Contact via HuggingFace for full dataset access and licensing. |
