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title = "Community {OSCAR}: A Community Effort for Multilingual Web Data",
author = "Brack, Manuel and
Ostendorff, Malte and
Ortiz Suarez, Pedro and
Saiz, Jos{\'e} Javier and
Castilla, I{\~n}aki Lacunza and
Palomar-Giner, Jorge and
Shvets, Alexander and
Schramowski, Patrick and
Rehm, Georg and
Villegas, Marta and
Kersting, Kristian",
editor = {S{\"a}lev{\"a}, Jonne and
Owodunni, Abraham},
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2024)",
month = nov,
year = "2024",
address = "Miami, Florida, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.mrl-1.19",
pages = "232--235",
abstract = "The development of large language models (LLMs) relies heavily on extensive, high-quality datasets. Publicly available datasets focus predominantly on English, leaving other language communities behind. To address this issue, we introduce Community OSCAR, a multilingual dataset initiative designed to address the gap between English and non-English data availability. Through a collective effort, Community OSCAR covers over 150 languages with 45 billion documents, totaling over 345 TiB of data. Initial results indicate that Community OSCAR provides valuable raw data for training LLMs and enhancing the performance of multilingual models. This work aims to contribute to the ongoing advancements in multilingual NLP and to support a more inclusive AI ecosystem by making high-quality, multilingual data more accessible to those working with low-resource languages.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Community OSCAR: A Community Effort for Multilingual Web Data
%A Brack, Manuel
%A Ostendorff, Malte
%A Ortiz Suarez, Pedro
%A Saiz, José Javier
%A Castilla, Iñaki Lacunza
%A Palomar-Giner, Jorge
%A Shvets, Alexander
%A Schramowski, Patrick
%A Rehm, Georg
%A Villegas, Marta
%A Kersting, Kristian
%Y Sälevä, Jonne
%Y Owodunni, Abraham
%S Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2024)
%D 2024
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Miami, Florida, USA
%F brack-etal-2024-community
%X The development of large language models (LLMs) relies heavily on extensive, high-quality datasets. Publicly available datasets focus predominantly on English, leaving other language communities behind. To address this issue, we introduce Community OSCAR, a multilingual dataset initiative designed to address the gap between English and non-English data availability. Through a collective effort, Community OSCAR covers over 150 languages with 45 billion documents, totaling over 345 TiB of data. Initial results indicate that Community OSCAR provides valuable raw data for training LLMs and enhancing the performance of multilingual models. This work aims to contribute to the ongoing advancements in multilingual NLP and to support a more inclusive AI ecosystem by making high-quality, multilingual data more accessible to those working with low-resource languages.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.mrl-1.19
%P 232-235
Markdown (Informal)
[Community OSCAR: A Community Effort for Multilingual Web Data](https://aclanthology.org/2024.mrl-1.19) (Brack et al., MRL 2024)
ACL
- Manuel Brack, Malte Ostendorff, Pedro Ortiz Suarez, José Javier Saiz, Iñaki Lacunza Castilla, Jorge Palomar-Giner, Alexander Shvets, Patrick Schramowski, Georg Rehm, Marta Villegas, and Kristian Kersting. 2024. Community OSCAR: A Community Effort for Multilingual Web Data. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2024), pages 232–235, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.