planwise-data/somali-stem-dataset

Somali STEM Terminology Dataset (Sample)

Overview

A bilingual English–Somali terminology dataset covering 5 STEM domains.

This is a 100-row public sample. The full dataset contains 3,000+ terms.

Somali is spoken by 20+ million people but is critically under-represented in AI training data. This is the only known structured Somali STEM lexicon in machine-readable format.

Fields

Distribution

Example

{
  "English": "Photosynthesis",
  "Somali": "Iftiinka-cunid",
  "Subject": "Biology",
  "Source": "Historical Somali educational materials",
  "definition_en": "The process by which green plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to produce glucose and oxygen.",
  "definition_so": "Habka ay dhirta cagaartu ku isticmaalaan iftiinka qorraxda, biyaha, iyo carbon dioxide si ay u soo saaraan glucose iyo ogsajiin.",
  "example_en": "During photosynthesis, a leaf absorbs sunlight and converts water and CO2 into sugar stored for energy.",
  "example_so": "Muddada iftiinka-cunidda, caleen waxay nuugtaa iftiinka qorraxda oo u bedeshaa biyaha iyo CO2 sonkor kaydiyay tamarta.",
  "difficulty_level": "basic"
}

Use Cases

• —Machine translation Somali ↔ English
• —NLP for low-resource languages
• —STEM education tools for Somalia and diaspora
• —Domain-specific fine-tuning of language models
• —Named Entity Recognition for scientific text

Source

Compiled and structured from historical Somali educational materials.

Notes

• —This repository contains a public sample only
• —Full dataset available for research collaboration and licensing upon request

License

CC BY 4.0 — Free to use with attribution, including commercial use.

Contact via HuggingFace for full dataset access and licensing.