# Dataset card

## Description

Open source Seed dataset in Bangla/Bengali (Dhaka Bangla)

## License

CC-BY-SA-4.0

## Attribution

```bibtex
@inproceedings{wmt24-seed-bangla,
    title="The {Bangla/Bengali} Seed Dataset Submission to the {WMT24} Open Language Data Initiative Shared Task",
    author="Firoz Ahmed and Nitin Venkateswaran and Sarah Moeller",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Machine Translation",
    month = nov,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Miami, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics"
}
```

## Language codes

* ISO 639-3: ben
* ISO 15924: Beng
* Glottocode: beng1280

## Additional language information

The data is in the Dhaka dialect of Bangla/Bengali

Reference grammar: David, Anne Boye (2015), Descriptive Grammar of Bangla, De Gruyter Mouton, ISBN 9781614512295

## Workflow

Data was translated from the English sentences of the Seed dataset maintained by the Open Language Data Initiative. All 6,193 English sentences were translated into Bangla by a single native speaker of the language who is highly proficient in English (at C2 level of the European Language framework) and has experience with professional translation as well as a university degree in Linguistics from the United States.