A New Massive Multilingual Dataset for High-Performance Language Technologies
Ona de Gibert, Graeme Nail, Nikolay Arefyev, Marta Bañón, Jelmer van der Linde, Shaoxiong Ji, Jaume Zaragoza-Bernabeu, Mikko Aulamo
Abstract
We present the HPLT (High Performance Language Technologies) language resources, a new massive multilingual dataset including both monolingual and bilingual corpora extracted from CommonCrawl and previously unused web crawls from the Internet Archive. We describe our methods for data acquisition, management and processing of large corpora, which rely on open-source software tools and high-performance computing. Our monolingual collection focuses on low- to medium-resourced languages and covers 75 languages and a total of ≈ 5.6 trillion word tokens de-duplicated on the document level. Our English-centric parallel corpus is derived from its monolingual counterpart and covers 18 language pairs and more than 96 million aligned sentence pairs with roughly 1.4 billion English tokens. The HPLT language resources are one of the largest open text corpora ever released, providing a great resource for language modeling and machine translation training. We publicly release the corpora, the software, and the tools used in this work.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{de-gibert-etal-2024-new,
title = "A New Massive Multilingual Dataset for High-Performance Language Technologies",
author = {de Gibert, Ona and
Nail, Graeme and
Arefyev, Nikolay and
Ba{\~n}{\'o}n, Marta and
van der Linde, Jelmer and
Ji, Shaoxiong and
Zaragoza-Bernabeu, Jaume and
Aulamo, Mikko and
Ram{\'i}rez-S{\'a}nchez, Gema and
Kutuzov, Andrey and
Pyysalo, Sampo and
Oepen, Stephan and
Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg},
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
Kan, Min-Yen and
Hoste, Veronique and
Lenci, Alessandro and
Sakti, Sakriani and
Xue, Nianwen",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)",
month = may,
year = "2024",
address = "Torino, Italia",
publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.100/",
pages = "1116--1128"
}