Dataset summary
This is a gold-standard benchmark dataset for document alignment, between Sinhala-English-Tamil languages. Data had been crawled from the following news websites.
Army - https://www.army.lk/ Hiru -http://www.hirunews.lk. ITN - https://www.newsfirst.lk/ Newsfirst -https://www.itnnews.lk.
The aligned documents have been manually annotated.
Dataset
The folder structure for each news source is as follows.
army----|--Sinhala |--English |--Tamil |--armynews_english_sinhala.txt |--armynews_english_tamil.txt |--armynews_sinhala_tamil.txt
Sinhala/English/Tamil - contain the crawled data for the respective news source army_news_english_sinhala.txt - contains the annotated aligned documents between English and Sinhala languages. armynews_english_tamil.txt - contains the annotated aligned documents between English and Tamil languages. armynews_sinhala_tamil.txt - contains the annotated aligned documents between Sinhala and Tamil languages.
Citation Information
@article{fernando2022exploiting, title={Exploiting bilingual lexicons to improve multilingual embedding-based document and sentence alignment for low-resource languages}, author={Fernando, Aloka and Ranathunga, Surangika and Sachintha, Dilan and Piyarathna, Lakmali and Rajitha, Charith}, journal={Knowledge and Information Systems}, pages={1--42}, year={2022}, publisher={Springer} }