Ashenafi-Bancha/wolaita-dataset

# 📚 Wolaita Language Dataset Building the foundational data that enables AI, research, and digital tools for the Wolaita language. ## 🌍 Overview The Wolaita Language Dataset is an open-source initiative focused on collecting, digitizing, organizing, and sharing high-quality linguistic data for the Wolaita language. Modern Artificial Intelligence systems depend on large, well-structured datasets. However, Wolaita remains a low‑resource language in the digital world. This repository aims to close that gap by creating reliable datasets that support: - Natural Language Processing (NLP) - Machine Translation - Speech Recognition - Text-to-Speech Systems - Language Learning Applications - Academic Research - Cultural Preservation This repository serves as the data foundation for Wolaita AI tools and language technologies. ## 🎯 Mission To build the largest, cleanest, and most accessible open Wolaita language dataset for technology, education, and research. ## 🧠 What This Repository Contains ### 1️⃣ Parallel Translation Corpus Sentence-level translations between: - Wolaita ↔ English - Wolaita ↔ Amharic - English ↔ Wolaita ↔ Amharic (tri-parallel where available) These datasets are essential for: - AI translators - Multilingual language models - Cross-lingual research #### Format Example ### 2️⃣ Monolingual Text Corpus Large collections of Wolaita-only texts used for: - Language modeling - Grammar analysis - Spell checking - Text generation Sources may include: - Books - Articles - Educational materials -Stories and folklore -Religious texts (public domain) - Community contributions ### 3️⃣ Wolaita Digital Dictionary Structured lexical database including: - Word - Part of speech - Meaning = Example sentence -Synonyms (if available) ### 5️⃣ Cultural & Linguistic Resources ``` Preserving identity through: - Proverbs - Idioms - Oral history transcripts - Traditional expressions - Cultural terminology ## 🗂️ Repository Structure wolaita-dataset/ │ ├── README …