BabyLM-community/babylm-ind

BabyLM Dataset

Dataset Description

This dataset is part of the BabyLM multilingual collection.
More information at: babylm.github.io/babybabellm

Dataset Summary

• Language: ind
• Script: Latn
• Tier: 100M
• Byte Premium Factor: 1.178746
• Size (MB): 638.87
• Expected Size (MB): 640.06
• Number of Documents: 37,704
• Total Tokens: 113,350,424
• Tokenizer: separate by whitespace

Tokens Per Category

• child-available-speech: 17,824 tokens
• child-books: 6,965,721 tokens
• child-news: 10,259,941 tokens
• educational: 62,188 tokens
• padding-opensubtitles: 96,044,750 tokens

Tokens Per Group

• Transcription: 17,824 tokens
• Education: 62,188 tokens
• Books, Wiki, News: 17,225,662 tokens
• Subtitles: 0 tokens
• Padding: 96,044,750 tokens

Data Fields

• text: The document text
• doc-id: Unique identifier for the document
• category: Type of content (e.g., child-directed-speech, educational, etc.)
• data-source: Original source of the data
• script: Writing system used (ISO 15924)
• age-estimate: Target age or age range
• license: Data license
• misc: Additional metadata (JSON string)
• num-tokens: Number of tokens per item (based on white-space split)
• language: Language code (ISO 639-3)

Licensing Information

Please see license in individual documents

Data Sources & Attribution

Books

• Books from Ministry of Education & Culture
  • source: https://repositori.kemdikbud.go.id/
  • description: Books obtained from a repository provided by the Ministry of Education & Culture
• NusaX
  • source: https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-main.57/
  • description: Manually curated dataset in the study by Winata et al., 2023
• NusaWrites
  • source: https://aclanthology.org/2023.ijcnlp-main.60/
  • description: Manually curated dataset in the study by Cahyawijaya et al., 2023b
• NusaDialogue
  • source: https://aclanthology.org/2025.sealp-1.8/
  • description: Manually curated dataset in the study by Purwarianti et al., 2025
• MADLAD-400
  • source: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2023/file/d49042a5d49818711c401d34172f9900-Paper-Datasets_and_Benchmarks.pdf
  • description: Dataset curated in the study by Kudugunta et al., 2023
• Ririro Story Collection
  • source: https://ririro.com/
  • description: Collection of children storybooks
• GlotStoryBooks Collection
  • source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16248
  • description: Collection of children storybooks

News

• Bobo children’s magazine
  • source: https://bobo.grid.id/
  • description: Collection of child-targeted articles

Note

• NusaCrowd
  • source: n/a
  • description: Dataset curated in the study by Cahyawijaya et al., 2023a
• SEACrowd
  • source: n/a
  • description: Dataset curated in the study by Lovenia et al., 2024

Transcription

• ASR-INDOCSC
  • source: https://magichub.com/datasets/indonesian-conversational-speech-corpus/
  • description: Dataset of daily conversational speech from children in Indonesia

Wikis

• Wikipedia
  • source: n/a
  • description: Online encyclopedia

Data Curators

• Faiz Hatzirama

Comments

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