Datasets:
Tasks:
Text Classification
Modalities:
Text
Formats:
parquet
Sub-tasks:
language-identification
Size:
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ArXiv:
License:
metadata
annotations_creators:
- derived
language:
- dan
- fao
- isl
- nno
- nob
- swe
license: cc-by-sa-3.0
multilinguality: monolingual
task_categories:
- text-classification
task_ids:
- language-identification
dataset_info:
features:
- name: text
dtype: string
- name: label
dtype: int64
splits:
- name: train
num_bytes: 5354604
num_examples: 56985
- name: test
num_bytes: 280970
num_examples: 3000
download_size: 3935030
dataset_size: 5635574
configs:
- config_name: default
data_files:
- split: train
path: data/train-*
- split: test
path: data/test-*
tags:
- mteb
- text
A dataset for Nordic language identification.
| Task category | t2c |
| Domains | Encyclopaedic |
| Reference | https://aclanthology.org/2021.vardial-1.8/ |
How to evaluate on this task
You can evaluate an embedding model on this dataset using the following code:
import mteb
task = mteb.get_tasks(["NordicLangClassification"])
evaluator = mteb.MTEB(task)
model = mteb.get_model(YOUR_MODEL)
evaluator.run(model)
To learn more about how to run models on mteb task check out the GitHub repitory.
Citation
If you use this dataset, please cite the dataset as well as mteb, as this dataset likely includes additional processing as a part of the MMTEB Contribution.
@inproceedings{haas-derczynski-2021-discriminating,
abstract = {Automatic language identification is a challenging problem. Discriminating between closely related languages is especially difficult. This paper presents a machine learning approach for automatic language identification for the Nordic languages, which often suffer miscategorisation by existing state-of-the-art tools. Concretely we will focus on discrimination between six Nordic languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian (Nynorsk), Norwegian (Bokm{\aa}l), Faroese and Icelandic.},
address = {Kiyv, Ukraine},
author = {Haas, Ren{\'e} and
Derczynski, Leon},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects},
editor = {Zampieri, Marcos and
Nakov, Preslav and
Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola and
Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg and
Scherrer, Yves and
Jauhiainen, Tommi},
month = apr,
pages = {67--75},
publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
title = {Discriminating Between Similar {N}ordic Languages},
url = {https://aclanthology.org/2021.vardial-1.8},
year = {2021},
}
@article{enevoldsen2025mmtebmassivemultilingualtext,
title={MMTEB: Massive Multilingual Text Embedding Benchmark},
author={Kenneth Enevoldsen and Isaac Chung and Imene Kerboua and Márton Kardos and Ashwin Mathur and David Stap and Jay Gala and Wissam Siblini and Dominik Krzemiński and Genta Indra Winata and Saba Sturua and Saiteja Utpala and Mathieu Ciancone and Marion Schaeffer and Gabriel Sequeira and Diganta Misra and Shreeya Dhakal and Jonathan Rystrøm and Roman Solomatin and Ömer Çağatan and Akash Kundu and Martin Bernstorff and Shitao Xiao and Akshita Sukhlecha and Bhavish Pahwa and Rafał Poświata and Kranthi Kiran GV and Shawon Ashraf and Daniel Auras and Björn Plüster and Jan Philipp Harries and Loïc Magne and Isabelle Mohr and Mariya Hendriksen and Dawei Zhu and Hippolyte Gisserot-Boukhlef and Tom Aarsen and Jan Kostkan and Konrad Wojtasik and Taemin Lee and Marek Šuppa and Crystina Zhang and Roberta Rocca and Mohammed Hamdy and Andrianos Michail and John Yang and Manuel Faysse and Aleksei Vatolin and Nandan Thakur and Manan Dey and Dipam Vasani and Pranjal Chitale and Simone Tedeschi and Nguyen Tai and Artem Snegirev and Michael Günther and Mengzhou Xia and Weijia Shi and Xing Han Lù and Jordan Clive and Gayatri Krishnakumar and Anna Maksimova and Silvan Wehrli and Maria Tikhonova and Henil Panchal and Aleksandr Abramov and Malte Ostendorff and Zheng Liu and Simon Clematide and Lester James Miranda and Alena Fenogenova and Guangyu Song and Ruqiya Bin Safi and Wen-Ding Li and Alessia Borghini and Federico Cassano and Hongjin Su and Jimmy Lin and Howard Yen and Lasse Hansen and Sara Hooker and Chenghao Xiao and Vaibhav Adlakha and Orion Weller and Siva Reddy and Niklas Muennighoff},
publisher = {arXiv},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.13595},
year={2025},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13595},
doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2502.13595},
}
@article{muennighoff2022mteb,
author = {Muennighoff, Niklas and Tazi, Nouamane and Magne, Lo{\"\i}c and Reimers, Nils},
title = {MTEB: Massive Text Embedding Benchmark},
publisher = {arXiv},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.07316},
year = {2022}
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.07316},
doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2210.07316},
}
Dataset Statistics
Dataset Statistics
The following code contains the descriptive statistics from the task. These can also be obtained using:
import mteb
task = mteb.get_task("NordicLangClassification")
desc_stats = task.metadata.descriptive_stats
{
"test": {
"num_samples": 3000,
"number_of_characters": 234686,
"number_texts_intersect_with_train": 320,
"min_text_length": 10,
"average_text_length": 78.22866666666667,
"max_text_length": 294,
"unique_text": 2841,
"unique_labels": 6,
"labels": {
"1": {
"count": 510
},
"5": {
"count": 480
},
"4": {
"count": 522
},
"2": {
"count": 455
},
"0": {
"count": 532
},
"3": {
"count": 501
}
}
},
"train": {
"num_samples": 56985,
"number_of_characters": 4471932,
"number_texts_intersect_with_train": null,
"min_text_length": 9,
"average_text_length": 78.47559884180048,
"max_text_length": 294,
"unique_text": 49950,
"unique_labels": 6,
"labels": {
"2": {
"count": 9543
},
"0": {
"count": 9462
},
"5": {
"count": 9519
},
"1": {
"count": 9490
},
"4": {
"count": 9477
},
"3": {
"count": 9494
}
}
}
}
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