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Warn about issues with the Common Crawl corpus data
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.
Hello, I was using the wmt14 and saw a similar trend, several german sentences are completely unrelated to the English counterpart:
Does the issue proliferate the wmt14 as well? If yes, is there a solution to this like a better dataset or a tool that can help filter out the noisy sentence pairs? Thanks!
Hi
WMT14 is now 10 years old. I would recommend you use data from the latest WMT (http://www2.statmt.org/wmt24/).
All parallel data contains some noise however, and there are many approaches to filtering. For instance, have a look at the WMT20 filtering task for ideas. https://www.statmt.org/wmt20/parallel-corpus-filtering.html
best
Barry