4 papers
CommonLID: Re-evaluating State-of-the-Art Language Identification Performance on Web Data
Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Laurie Burchell, Catherine Arnett +94
Language identification (LID) is a fundamental step in curating multilingual corpora. However, LID models still perform poorly for many languages, especially on the noisy and heter…
HPLT 3.0: Very Large-Scale Multilingual Resources for LLMs and MT. Mono- and Bi-lingual Data, Multilingual Evaluation, and Pre-Trained Models
Stephan Oepen, Nikolay Arefev, Mikko Aulamo +29
We present an ongoing initiative to provide open, very large, high-quality, and richly annotated textual datasets for almost 200 languages. At 30 trillion tokens, this is likely th…
Back to Bytes: Revisiting Tokenization Through UTF-8
Amit Moryossef, Clara Meister, Pavel Stepachev +1
We present UTF8Tokenizer, a minimalist byte-level tokenizer that maps text exactly to IDs corresponding to the bytes underlying the text's UTF-8 encoding (e.g., byte x09 is token I…
An Expanded Massive Multilingual Dataset for High-Performance Language Technologies (HPLT)
Laurie Burchell, Ona de Gibert, Nikolay Arefyev +32
Training state-of-the-art large language models requires vast amounts of clean and diverse textual data. However, building suitable multilingual datasets remains a challenge. In th…