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OSCAR EU 6x3M Dataset
Overview
The OSCAR EU 6x3M dataset is a carefully curated subset of the larger OSCAR corpus, specifically focusing on the main European languages. This dataset includes a balanced representation of six languages: English (en), German (de), Spanish (es), Italian (it), French (fr), and Russian (ru). The "6x3M" in the name signifies that each language is represented with approximately 3 million randomly sampled documents, providing a comprehensive and diverse linguistic resource.
Dataset Description
- Languages Included: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Russian
- Number of Documents: Approximately 18 million (3 million per language)
- Data Source: The dataset is derived from the OSCAR corpus, a large multilingual corpus created from the Common Crawl.
Use Cases
This dataset is ideal for a variety of natural language processing applications, including but not limited to:
- Multilingual language modeling
- Cross-linguistic transfer learning
- Language identification and classification
- Comparative linguistic studies
Accessing the Dataset
The dataset is available through the HuggingFace Datasets library. You can load the dataset using the following code snippet:
from datasets import load_dataset
dataset = load_dataset("oscar_eu_6x3M")