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+The first Old English to Modern English dataset for language translation!
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+The dataset is structured as `source_language, target_language` pairs. For more information on how the dataset was extracted, structured, annotated, parsed, etc, you can check [this][1] introductory notebook where the data collection methodology is explained and an LLM Gemma-2 model is finetuned on it.
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+Next you can find the original sources of these texts:
+- The raw translations come from the excellent work of [Dr. Ophelia Hostetter](https://hostetter.camden.rutgers.edu/) and can be found in the [Old English Poetry Project](https://oldenglishpoetry.camden.rutgers.edu/). 
+- The raw old english texts can be found in [The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry](https://sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/).
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+These texts translations encompass almost 79% of all extant Old English poetry (that’s 23,662 lines out of about 30,000 extant lines).
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+[1]: https://www.kaggle.com/code/alejopaullier/theoden-the-old-english-gemma
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 license: apache-2.0
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