README.md

---
license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
- translation
language:
- zh
size_categories:
- 100M<n<1B
tags:
- machine translation
---

### Dataset Summary
This dataset consists of parallel sentence pairs in Cantonese and Chinese. It is designed for various tasks, including machine translation. 

The corpus contains a large number of sentence pairs collected from various domains and most has been improved through manual correction and translation.


### Languages

- Cantonese (`yue`)
- Simplified Chinese (`zh`)

### Dataset Structure

Each entry in the dataset is a JSON object containing two fields: "yue" for the Cantonese sentence and "zh" for the corresponding Chinese sentence.

### Citation
If you find our work helpful, feel free to give us a cite.

```
@inproceedings{dai2025next,
  title={Next-Level Cantonese-to-Mandarin Translation: Fine-Tuning and Post-Processing with LLMs},  
  author={Dai, Yuqian and Chan, Chun Fai and Wong, Ying Ki and Pun, Tsz Ho},  
  booktitle={Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages},  
  pages={427--436},
  year={2025}  
}
```