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New Somali language corpus and tools released for research

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Researchers have developed SomaliWeb v1, a new corpus of Somali text containing approximately 303 million tokens. This dataset was created through a reproducible six-stage pipeline, filtering data from HPLT v2, CC100, and Somali Wikipedia. The release also includes a matched BPE-16K tokenizer and the first public benchmark for Somali language identification, highlighting quality issues in existing datasets. AI

IMPACT Provides essential resources for developing AI models for the Somali language, addressing a gap in low-resource language support.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new academic paper detailing the creation of a specialized language corpus and associated tools. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New Somali language corpus and tools released for research

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Khalid Yusuf Dahir ·

    SomaliWeb v1: A Quality-Filtered Somali Web Corpus with a Matched Tokenizer and a Public Language-Identification Benchmark

    Somali is a Cushitic language of the Horn of Africa with ~25 million speakers, yet no documented dedicated Somali pretraining corpus with a companion tokenizer and language-identification benchmark has been publicly released. Existing Somali text appears either inside multilingua…

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