Offering a Basque-Spanish parallel corpus extracted from comparable news articles produced by the Basque public broadcasting group Euskal Irrati Telebista (EiTB). It contains sentence-aligned text pairs across Spanish (es) and Basque (eu) languages specifically curated for machine translation tasks.
Use Cases
- Train neural machine translation models to translate between Spanish ('es') and Basque ('eu') using the translation column
- Evaluate cross-lingual information retrieval systems using the comparable news structure
- Perform linguistic analysis on Basque-Spanish translation shifts in professional journalism
- Benchmark translation quality for low-resource languages using the aligned sentence pairs
Strengths
- Contains parallel sentence pairs for Spanish (es) and Basque (eu) languages
- Sourced from professional news content by the Euskal Irrati Telebista (EiTB) broadcasting group
- Curated by Vicomtech specifically for the translation task
- Structured as a comparable news corpus converted into a parallel format