README.md

---
license: cc
task_categories:
- text-generation
language:
- ml
- gu
- mr
- hi
- pa
- bn
pretty_name: Aya Paraphrase
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: mal
        path: data/mal.parquet
      - split: ben
        path: data/ben.parquet        
      - split: guj
        path: data/guj.parquet
      - split: hin
        path: data/hin.parquet
      - split: mar
        path: data/mar.parquet
      - split: pan
        path: data/pan.parquet
        
---

### Description

This dataset is derived from the already existing dataset made by AI4Bharat. We have used the [IndicXParaphrase](https://huggingface.co/datasets/ai4bharat/IndicXParaphrase) dataset of AI4Bharat to create this instruction style dataset. 
This was created as part of [Aya Open Science Initiative](https://sites.google.com/cohere.com/aya-en/home) from Cohere For AI.

IndicXParaphrase is multilingual, and n-way parallel dataset for paraphrase detection in 10 Indic languages. The original dataset(IndicXParaphrase) was made available under the cc-0 license. 


### Template

The following templates where used for converting the original dataset:
```
#Template 1
prompt:
Write the following sentence using different words: "{original_sentence}"

completion:
{paraphrased_sentence}
```
```
#Template 2
prompt:
Rewrite the following sentence in different way: "{original_sentence}"

completion:
{paraphrased_sentence}
```
```
#Template 3
prompt:
Paraphrase the following sentence:: "{original_sentence}"

completion:
{paraphrased_sentence}
```

### Acknowledgement
Thank you, Jay Patel for helping by providing the Gujarati translations, Amarjit for helping by providing the Punjabi translations,
Yogesh Haribhau Kulkarni for helping by providing the Marathi translations, 
Ganesh Jagadeesan for helping by providing the Hindi translations and Tahmid Hossain for helping by providing the Bengali translations of the above mentioned English prompts.