---
annotations_creators: []
language_creators:
- other
language:
- tw
- en
license: []
multilinguality:
- translation
size_categories:
- unknown
source_datasets:
- extended|other
task_categories:
- question-answering
- text2text-generation
- text-generation
- translation
task_ids:
- language-modeling
pretty_name: taiwanese_english_translation
tags:
- conditional-text-generation
---

# Dataset Card for taiwanese_english_translation

## Table of Contents
- [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents)
- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
  - [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
  - [Supported Tasks and Leaderboards](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
  - [Languages](#languages)
- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
  - [Data Instances](#data-instances)
  - [Data Fields](#data-fields)
  - [Data Splits](#data-splits)
- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)
  - [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale)
  - [Source Data](#source-data)
  - [Annotations](#annotations)
  - [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information)
- [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data)
  - [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset)
  - [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases)
  - [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations)
- [Additional Information](#additional-information)
  - [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators)
  - [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)
  - [Citation Information](#citation-information)
  - [Contributions](#contributions)

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage: https://taigi.fhl.net/list.html**

### Dataset Summary

Taiwanese and English translation of the Bible (National Taiwanese Bible Quan Luo version and World English Bible version).
Each line corresponds to a verse in the Bible, which may contain multiple sentences.
The dataset contains a total of more than 31,102 sentences (31,102 verses in the Bible).


### Languages

Source Language: Taiwanese (Tailo romanization system)
Target Language: English

## Dataset Structure

csv: Tailo,English

### Data Instances

[More Information Needed]

### Data Fields

[More Information Needed]

### Data Splits

Data split into train (80%), validation (10%), and test (10%) sets.

## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

[More Information Needed]

### Source Data

#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

The data was scraped from the website: https://taigi.fhl.net/list.html.
General noise cleanup was conducted. Also note that all names in Taiwanese have been de-hyphenated to assist with training.

#### Who are the source language producers?

The WWW Multimedia Information Network, operating under the Hope Hope Information Center, provides Taiwanese translations of the Bible.

### Annotations

#### Annotation process

[More Information Needed]

#### Who are the annotators?

[More Information Needed]

### Personal and Sensitive Information

N/A

## Considerations for Using the Data

### Social Impact of Dataset

[More Information Needed]

### Discussion of Biases

[More Information Needed]

### Other Known Limitations

A considerable amount of noise has been removed. However, there may still be some noise (extra punctuation, brackets, digits, special characters, verse annotations).

## Additional Information

### Dataset Curators

[More Information Needed]

### Licensing Information

[More Information Needed]

### Citation Information

https://taigi.fhl.net/list.html

### Contributions

Thanks to [@atenglens](https://github.com/atenglens) for adding this dataset.