oldi_seed_kyrgyz_translations (#4)

- Add Kyrgyz (6f220556ea408fe5c9d711b08f7e5ad4dd588445)
- fix a missing translation in kir_Cyrl; udpade the paper link (e821605aaf81150c5ecf4a2f0c3c941622504a73)
- update changelog, bibliography and readme with Kyrgyz references (cd72983b9bde36b5f93dde5db2e18d5c2098b165)


Co-authored-by: Murat Jumashev <murat@users.noreply.huggingface.co>

CHANGELOG.md

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 1. Any updates to pre-existing files shall entail a major version bump.
 2. The inclusion of a new language, without changes to other pre-existing data, shall only entail a minor version bump.
 
+## [3.0] - 2025-11-03
+- Added `kyr_Cyrl`
+
 ## [2.0] - 2024-11-08
 
 ### Added

README.md

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 | `ita` | `Latn` | `ital1282` |              Italian              |                                                            |
 | `kas` | `Arab` | `kash1277` |      Kashmiri (Arabic script)     |                                                            |
 | `kas` | `Deva` | `kash1277` |    Kashmiri (Devanagari script)   |                                                            |
+| `kir` | `Cyrl` | `kirg1245` |              Kyrgyz               |                                                            |
 | `knc` | `Arab` | `cent2050` |   Central Kanuri (Arabic script)  |                                                            |
 | `knc` | `Latn` | `cent2050` |   Central Kanuri (Latin script)   |                                                            |
 | `lij` | `Latn` | `geno1240` |         Ligurian (Genoese)        |                                                            |

bibliography.bib

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     address = "Miami, USA",
     publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics"
 }
+
+% for Kyrgyz
+@inproceedings{jumashev-etal-2025-kyrgyz,
+    title = "The {K}yrgyz Seed Dataset Submission to the {WMT}25 Open Language Data Initiative Shared Task",
+    author = "Jumashev, Murat  and
+      Tillabaeva, Alina  and
+      Kasieva, Aida  and
+      Omurkanov, Turgunbek  and
+      Musaeva, Akylai  and
+      Emil Kyzy, Meerim  and
+      Chagataeva, Gulaiym  and
+      Washington, Jonathan",
+    editor = "Haddow, Barry  and
+      Kocmi, Tom  and
+      Koehn, Philipp  and
+      Monz, Christof",
+    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Machine Translation",
+    month = nov,
+    year = "2025",
+    address = "Suzhou, China",
+    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
+    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.wmt-1.84/",
+    pages = "1088--1102",
+    ISBN = "979-8-89176-341-8",
+    abstract = "We present a Kyrgyz language seed dataset as part of our contribution to the WMT25 Open Language Data Initiative (OLDI) shared task. This paper details the process of collecting and curating English{--}Kyrgyz translations, highlighting the main challenges encountered in translating into a morphologically rich, low-resource language. We demonstrate the quality of the dataset through fine-tuning experiments, showing consistent improvements in machine translation performance across multiple models. Comparisons with bilingual and MNMT Kyrgyz-English baselines reveal that, for some models, our dataset enables performance surpassing pretrained baselines in both English{--}Kyrgyz and Kyrgyz{--}English translation directions. These results validate the dataset{'}s utility and suggest that it can serve as a valuable resource for the Kyrgyz MT community and other related low-resource languages."
+}

dataset_cards/kir_Cyrl.md

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+# Dataset card
+
+## Description  
+<!-- A concise description of the data associated with this card. -->  
+Open source Seed dataset in Kyrgyz (Кыргыз тили, Кыргызча)
+
+
+
+## License  
+<!-- Contributions to existing datasets must be released under the same license as the parent dataset. For completely new contributions, we encourage the use of an open license. At a minimum, data should be made available for research use. Please specify the license using an SPDX license identifier. -->  
+CC-BY-SA-4.0  
+
+## Attribution  
+<!-- Who should be credited for creating this dataset? Feel free to include citation data in BibTeX format. -->  
+```bibtex 
+@inproceedings{jumashev-etal-2025-kyrgyz,
+    title = "The {K}yrgyz Seed Dataset Submission to the {WMT}25 Open Language Data Initiative Shared Task",
+    author = "Jumashev, Murat  and
+      Tillabaeva, Alina  and
+      Kasieva, Aida  and
+      Omurkanov, Turgunbek  and
+      Musaeva, Akylai  and
+      Emil Kyzy, Meerim  and
+      Chagataeva, Gulaiym  and
+      Washington, Jonathan",
+    editor = "Haddow, Barry  and
+      Kocmi, Tom  and
+      Koehn, Philipp  and
+      Monz, Christof",
+    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Machine Translation",
+    month = nov,
+    year = "2025",
+    address = "Suzhou, China",
+    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
+    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.wmt-1.84/",
+    pages = "1088--1102",
+    ISBN = "979-8-89176-341-8",
+    abstract = "We present a Kyrgyz language seed dataset as part of our contribution to the WMT25 Open Language Data Initiative (OLDI) shared task. This paper details the process of collecting and curating English{--}Kyrgyz translations, highlighting the main challenges encountered in translating into a morphologically rich, low-resource language. We demonstrate the quality of the dataset through fine-tuning experiments, showing consistent improvements in machine translation performance across multiple models. Comparisons with bilingual and MNMT Kyrgyz-English baselines reveal that, for some models, our dataset enables performance surpassing pretrained baselines in both English{--}Kyrgyz and Kyrgyz{--}English translation directions. These results validate the dataset{'}s utility and suggest that it can serve as a valuable resource for the Kyrgyz MT community and other related low-resource languages."
+}
+```  
+See the paper "The Kyrgyz Seed Dataset Submission to the WMT25 Open Language Data Initiative Shared Task" at https://aclanthology.org/2025.wmt-1.84/.
+
+## Language codes  
+<!-- * If this language is assigned an ISO 639-3 individual language code (not a macrolanguage code), specify it here. * Please specify the script this language is written in using an ISO 15924 code. * If this language is assigned a Glottocode, please specify it here. -->  
+* ISO 639-3: kir
+* ISO 15924: Cyrl
+* Glottocode: kirg1245
+
+## Additional language information  
+We used el-sozduk.kg, which provides multiple dictionaries including Kyrgyz-English, Kyrgyz-Russian, English-Kyrgyz, and Russian-Kyrgyz. Since Kazakh and Kyrgyz are highly mutually intelligible, we also consulted sozdik.kz (a Kazakh dictionary) to assist with translations and cross-checking. In addition, we used other English-to-Turkic language dictionaries to further inform our translations. Russian was frequently used as an intermediary language, both for dictionary lookups (e.g., via multitran.com for English-Russian) and for clarifying meanings between English and Kyrgyz or other Turkic languages.
+  
+## Workflow
+Our translation team included six native Kyrgyz speakers: two experienced translators and two students from the Kyrgyz-English Language Program at Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University. We followed the OLDI (2025) guidelines. The workflow had four stages: (1) machine translation using Aitil (https://translate.mamtil.gov.kg/), a Gemma3-based MT service fine-tuned by Ulut Soft LLC, (2) manual correction by individual translators, (3) team terminology unification, and (4) cross-validation and peer review to ensure accuracy and consistency.
+
+## Additional guidelines  
+We created a supplementary list of terms—an English-to-Kyrgyz mini-dictionary—for words and expressions that could not be found in any existing English-Kyrgyz or Russian-Kyrgyz dictionaries. This resource is available in the paper's repository: https://github.com/kyrgyz-nlp/oldi-dataset-experiments/blob/main/mini-dictionary.txt
+
+Terminology consultation and review were led by one of the co-authors, Assoc. Prof.Dr. Aida Kasieva, Department of Simultaneous Translation, Faculty of Humanities of the Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University. Her expertise ensured the accuracy and consistency of specialized vocabulary throughout the dataset.

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