The #Somos600M Project: Generating NLP resources that represent the diversity of the languages from LATAM, the Caribbean, and Spain
<|reference_start|>The #Somos600M Project: Generating NLP resources that represent the diversity of the languages from LATAM, the Caribbean, and Spain: We are 600 million Spanish speakers. We launched the #Somos600M Project because the diversity of the languages from LATAM, the Caribbean and Spain needs to be represented in Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. Despite being the 7.5% of the world population, there is no open dataset to instruction-tune large language models (LLMs), nor a leaderboard to evaluate and compare them. In this paper, we present how we have created as an international open-source community the first versions of the instruction and evaluation datasets, indispensable resources for the advancement of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in our languages.<|reference_end|>
@article{grandury2024the,
    title={The #Somos600M Project: Generating NLP resources that represent the
  diversity of the languages from LATAM, the Caribbean, and Spain},
    author={Mar'ia Grandury},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.17479},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2407.17479},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}