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Tatoeba

Introduced by Mikel Artetxe et al. in Massively Multilingual Sentence Embeddings for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer and Beyond26 Dec 2018 archive 2025-07-28

Tatoeba is a free collection of example sentences with translations geared towards foreign language learners. It is available in more than 400 languages. Its name comes from the Japanese phrase “tatoeba” (例えば), meaning “for example”. It is written and maintained by a community of volunteers through a model of open collaboration. Individual contributors are known as Tatoebans.

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

All 2 leaderboards whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.

		First row (archive order)	Paper	Code
Machine Translation	Tatoeba (EL-to-EN)	PENELOPIE (Transformers-based Greek-to-English NMT) BLEU 79.3	PENELOPIE: Enabling Open Information Extraction for the...	lighteternal/PENELOPIE	1	Compare
Machine Translation	Tatoeba (EN-to-EL)	PENELOPIE Transformers-based NMT (EN2EL) BLEU 76.9	PENELOPIE: Enabling Open Information Extraction for the...	lighteternal/PENELOPIE	1	Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

1 shown of 1 paper with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 38. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

			Date	Samples run Syntology
PENELOPIE: Enabling Open Information Extraction for the Greek Language through Machine Translation	1	2	28 Mar 2021	not harvested

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

huggingface.co/datasets/Helsinki-NLP/tatoeba huggingface/datasetstfpytorchjax

huggingface.co/datasets/tatoeba huggingface/datasetstfpytorchjax

2 loaders as listed in the archive; links are outbound and not re-checked here.

Tasks archive 2025-07-28

License archive 2025-07-28

CC–BY 2.0 FR

Modalities archive 2025-07-28

Texts

Languages archive 2025-07-28

English

Variants archive 2025-07-28

tatoeba-test-v2021-08-07
tatoeba-test-v2021-03-30
tatoeba-test-v2021-02-22
tatoeba-test-v2020-07-28-v2021-08-07
tatoeba-test-v2020-07-28
Tatoeba-test.eng-deu
tatoeba-test
Tatoeba (EN-to-EL)
Tatoeba (EL-to-EN)
tatoeba v2021-08-07 yid-eng
tatoeba v2021-08-07 yid-deu
tatoeba v2021-08-07 swg-deu
tatoeba v2021-08-07 nld-nds
tatoeba v2021-08-07 nld-ltz
tatoeba v2021-08-07 nld-fry
tatoeba v2021-08-07 nld-eng
tatoeba v2021-08-07 nld-deu
tatoeba v2021-08-07 nld-afr
tatoeba v2021-08-07 nds-nld
tatoeba v2021-08-07 nds-eng
tatoeba v2021-08-07 nds-deu
tatoeba v2021-08-07 ltz-nld
tatoeba v2021-08-07 ltz-eng
tatoeba v2021-08-07 ltz-deu
tatoeba v2021-08-07 hrx-eng
tatoeba v2021-08-07 hrx-deu
tatoeba v2021-08-07 gsw-eng
tatoeba v2021-08-07 gos-nld
tatoeba v2021-08-07 gos-eng
tatoeba v2021-08-07 gos-deu
tatoeba v2021-08-07 fry-nld
tatoeba v2021-08-07 fry-eng
tatoeba v2021-08-07 frr-deu
tatoeba v2021-08-07 eng-yid
tatoeba v2021-08-07 eng-nld
tatoeba v2021-08-07 eng-nds
tatoeba v2021-08-07 eng-ltz
tatoeba v2021-08-07 eng-fry
tatoeba v2021-08-07 eng-deu
tatoeba v2021-08-07 eng-afr
tatoeba v2021-08-07 deu-yid
tatoeba v2021-08-07 deu-nld
tatoeba v2021-08-07 deu-nds
tatoeba v2021-08-07 deu-ltz
tatoeba v2021-08-07 deu-eng
tatoeba v2021-08-07 deu-afr
tatoeba v2021-03-30 ang-eng
tatoeba v2021-08-07 afr-nld
tatoeba v2021-08-07 afr-eng
tatoeba v2021-08-07 afr-deu
Tatoeba - Test
Tatoeba

52 variant names, as the archive lists them.

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