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Warn about issues with the Common Crawl corpus data

#3
by albertvillanova HF staff - opened
WMT: Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation org
edited Dec 2, 2022

After investigating this issue, we have discovered that there are issues with the source data file of the Common Crawl corpus: https://www.statmt.org/wmt13/training-parallel-commoncrawl.tgz

  • Non-English files contain many English sentences.
  • Their "parallel" sentences in English are not aligned: they are uncorrelated with their counterpart

This PR adds a warning to the dataset card explaining this.

Related to #2.

albertvillanova changed pull request status to open
albertvillanova changed pull request title from Warn about corruption of Common Crawl corpus data to Warn about issues with the Common Crawl corpus data
albertvillanova changed pull request status to merged

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