README.md

---
language:
- srn
- nl
multilinguality:
- translation
pretty_name: sranantongo
task_categories:
  - translation
---
## Dataset Description
Dataset for Sranantongo, an English-based creole language spoken as lingua franca in Suriname. The dataset includes monolingual data as well as Sranantongo-Dutch parallel data.

The following splits are available:
* `srn`: 
Monolingual data scraped from SIL. There is a `train` split (6570 sentences) available.
* `srn-nl_jw`: 
Parallel data srn-nl originating from Jehova Witnesses. There are `train` (299085 sentences), `validation` (256 sentences), and `test` (256 sentences) splits available.
* `srn-nl_other`: 
Parallel data srn-nl originating from Z-Library, Naks Sranan facebook and Dutch DOJ. There are `train` (3610 sentences), `validation` (256 sentences), and `test` (256 sentences) splits available.

For more details see the accompanying paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06383


## Using dataset
Example of loading monolingual data:
```python
dataset = load_dataset("davidstap/sranantongo", "srn", trust_remote_code=True)
```

Example of loading parallel JW data:
```python
dataset = load_dataset("davidstap/sranantongo", "srn-nl_jw", trust_remote_code=True)
```

Example of loading parallel other data:
```python
dataset = load_dataset("davidstap/sranantongo", "srn-nl_other", trust_remote_code=True)
```

### Citation Information

```
@article{zwennicker2022towards,
  title={Towards a general purpose machine translation system for Sranantongo},
  author={Zwennicker, Just and Stap, David},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.06383},
  year={2022}
}
```