---
license: mit
language:
- ru
- az
- lez
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: parallel
        path:
          - parallel/bible_quran_qusar.csv
      - split: mono
        path: mono/lezgi_gazet_05102024.csv
---

Corpus for paper "Neural machine translation system for Lezgian, Russian and Azerbaijani languages".
To be published soon.

Parallel corpus sources:
- **Bible**: parsed from https://bible.com, aligned by verse numbers (merged if necessary).
  "Oriental translation" (CARS) version is used for the Russian language as it is more coherent with Lezgian translation
- **Quran**: parsed from https://quranacademy.org.
  Russian translation by Abu Adel is used as it is more coherent with Lezgian translation
- **Qusar encyclopedia**: parsed and aligned from the book ["Qusar, qusarılar. КцӀар, кцӀарвияр"](https://www.sedagetkerimova.com/uploads/proza/proza_1595590008_Qusar%20kitabi%20tam.pdf) by Sedaqet Kerimova
  Contains only Lezgian-Azerbaijani pairs
  

Mono corpus sources:
- **Lezgi gazet**: the largest newspaper in Lezgian language. Parsed all available archives as of 05/Oct/2024 from the website (https://lezgigazet.ru/)