A CURATEd CATalog: Rethinking the Extraction of Pretraining Corpora for Mid-Resourced Languages (2024.lrec-main)
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Jorge Palomar-Giner, Jose Javier Saiz, Ferran Espuña, Mario Mina, Severino Da Dalt, Joan Llop, Malte Ostendorff, Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Georg Rehm, Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre, Marta Villegas
| Challenge: | CATalog 1.0 is the largest text corpus in Catalan to date . CURATE is a pipeline that can be parallelizable to run in high performance clusters . |
| Approach: | They propose a data pipeline that uses binary filters to filter documents based on text quality . they optimised the pipeline to run in high performance clusters . |
| Outcome: | The proposed pipeline is optimized for high performance cluster environments and runs in high performance. |
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