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Release Date: 5/5/2026
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The Congo Swahili portion of CLEAR Global's Gamayun Language Data Kits — 25,305 parallel French–Congo Swahili sentences in total, distributed across three independent kit sizes: 5,000 (`kit5k`), 10,000 (`kit10k`), and 10,305 (`kit15k`, partial delivery of the medium-kit target). French source sentences were drawn from the Tatoeba repository using a selection algorithm that ensures representation of the most frequently used words in French; Congo Swahili translations were produced by professionals and volunteers of the Translators without Borders (now CLEAR Global) translator community. Each kit TSV includes a `swc_clean` column with parenthetical content removed, in addition to the raw translation. Each kit TSV is accompanied by a core kit TSV containing the original French source sentences with their Tatoeba IDs. Note that kit sizes are independent selections — `kit10k` is not a superset of `kit5k`. Gamayun is part of CLEAR Global's initiative to develop open-source language technology for under-resourced languages used in humanitarian contexts.
Licensing
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
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Attribution to CLEAR Global is required.
Forbidden Usage
Using the data without giving appropriate credit to CLEAR Global.
Ethical Review
Source sentences are general-domain content from the openly licensed Tatoeba repository. Translations were produced by professional and volunteer translators from the Translators without Borders / CLEAR Global community, who were credited and (where applicable) compensated for their work.
Intended Use
Development of open-source language technology for Congo Swahili, in particular machine translation between Congo Swahili and French, as well as related NLP tasks (language modeling, alignment, lexicon induction).
This is the Congo Swahili–French kit collection from CLEAR Global's broader Gamayun Language Data Kits initiative, which provides parallel data for under-resourced languages by translating a curated set of general-domain French sentences sourced from Tatoeba. The selection algorithm used to pick source sentences is documented in the corepus-gen repository. Translations were performed by professionals and volunteers of CLEAR Global's (formerly Translators without Borders) translator community. Note: kit15k.tsv contains 10,305 sentences (partial delivery of the medium-kit target).
If you use this data, please cite Gamayun – Language Technology for Humanitarian Response:
@inproceedings{oktem2020gamayun,
title = {Gamayun -- Language Technology for Humanitarian Response},
author = {Öktem, Alp and Albayk Jaam, Muhannad and DeLuca, Eric and Tang, Grace},
booktitle = {2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)},
year = {2020},
address = {Virtual},
m {October 29 -- November 1}
}
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