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# Dataset card
## Description
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Open source Seed dataset in Kyrgyz (Кыргыз тили, Кыргызча)
## License
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CC-BY-SA-4.0
## Attribution
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```bibtex
@inproceedings{jumashev-etal-2025-kyrgyz,
title = "The {K}yrgyz Seed Dataset Submission to the {WMT}25 Open Language Data Initiative Shared Task",
author = "Jumashev, Murat and
Tillabaeva, Alina and
Kasieva, Aida and
Omurkanov, Turgunbek and
Musaeva, Akylai and
Emil Kyzy, Meerim and
Chagataeva, Gulaiym and
Washington, Jonathan",
editor = "Haddow, Barry and
Kocmi, Tom and
Koehn, Philipp and
Monz, Christof",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Machine Translation",
month = nov,
year = "2025",
address = "Suzhou, China",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.wmt-1.84/",
pages = "1088--1102",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-341-8",
abstract = "We present a Kyrgyz language seed dataset as part of our contribution to the WMT25 Open Language Data Initiative (OLDI) shared task. This paper details the process of collecting and curating English{--}Kyrgyz translations, highlighting the main challenges encountered in translating into a morphologically rich, low-resource language. We demonstrate the quality of the dataset through fine-tuning experiments, showing consistent improvements in machine translation performance across multiple models. Comparisons with bilingual and MNMT Kyrgyz-English baselines reveal that, for some models, our dataset enables performance surpassing pretrained baselines in both English{--}Kyrgyz and Kyrgyz{--}English translation directions. These results validate the dataset{'}s utility and suggest that it can serve as a valuable resource for the Kyrgyz MT community and other related low-resource languages."
}
```
See the paper "The Kyrgyz Seed Dataset Submission to the WMT25 Open Language Data Initiative Shared Task" at https://aclanthology.org/2025.wmt-1.84/.
## Language codes
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* ISO 639-3: kir
* ISO 15924: Cyrl
* Glottocode: kirg1245
## Additional language information
We used el-sozduk.kg, which provides multiple dictionaries including Kyrgyz-English, Kyrgyz-Russian, English-Kyrgyz, and Russian-Kyrgyz. Since Kazakh and Kyrgyz are highly mutually intelligible, we also consulted sozdik.kz (a Kazakh dictionary) to assist with translations and cross-checking. In addition, we used other English-to-Turkic language dictionaries to further inform our translations. Russian was frequently used as an intermediary language, both for dictionary lookups (e.g., via multitran.com for English-Russian) and for clarifying meanings between English and Kyrgyz or other Turkic languages.
## Workflow
Our translation team included six native Kyrgyz speakers: two experienced translators and two students from the Kyrgyz-English Language Program at Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University. We followed the OLDI (2025) guidelines. The workflow had four stages: (1) machine translation using Aitil (https://translate.mamtil.gov.kg/), a Gemma3-based MT service fine-tuned by Ulut Soft LLC, (2) manual correction by individual translators, (3) team terminology unification, and (4) cross-validation and peer review to ensure accuracy and consistency.
## Additional guidelines
We created a supplementary list of terms—an English-to-Kyrgyz mini-dictionary—for words and expressions that could not be found in any existing English-Kyrgyz or Russian-Kyrgyz dictionaries. This resource is available in the paper's repository: https://github.com/kyrgyz-nlp/oldi-dataset-experiments/blob/main/mini-dictionary.txt
Terminology consultation and review were led by one of the co-authors, Assoc. Prof.Dr. Aida Kasieva, Department of Simultaneous Translation, Faculty of Humanities of the Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University. Her expertise ensured the accuracy and consistency of specialized vocabulary throughout the dataset.
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