Hi all, in the french corpus of the Sentence Collector, I’m seeing recently quite a bunch of grammatically correct but completly meaningless sentences (like “I’m driving my pizza with an elephant on my cheese”). What are we supposed to do with those ? Regards, Cedric

[image] Bloubi: What are we supposed to do with those ? It’s fine, we don’t expect anything that has any sense as long as it’s readable and french

I came to the forum looking to see if anybody else had already reported this. To give a concrete example: The architect declares to be acting on the psychoanalysts by touching sixty-six ratchets. (“L’architecte déclare agir sur les psychanalistes en touchant soixante-dix crécelles.”) I strongly be…

Where do these come from? It sounds like someone wrote a script to insert random words into boilerplate sentences, just to increase the quantity.

Well, if we are starting to talk about automatically generated sentences, that’s another question. From the ~5000 validations I did on sentence collector, I did not saw such kind of sentence. Maybe someone is messing with us ?

I assume someone with DB access will be able to see who added all these French sentences. My guess is that they used either a set of templates or a PCFG-based generator, since most of the sentences are grammatically correct.

As Gregor already said on Slack, anyone is allowed to read the data source: https://kinto.mozvoice.org/v1/buckets/App/collections/Sentences_Meta_fr/records Once you have identified the username, you can filter by appending ?username=foo to the URL.

Thanks for that Michael. After a quick investigation, seems like it comes from user bf5man, and he added in the source field:“These are my own based on an open source tool.” Regards, Cedric

[image] Bloubi: from user bf5man, and he added in the source field:“These are my own based on an open source tool.” it’d be great if we reach out to him so we can adjust contributions

Hi all, I’m now rejecting spoken versions of the meaningless sentences. It is a pity as we are wasting the time of these volunteers. How could we remove these sentences from bf5man ? Cedric

Validating meaningless sentences in the Sentence Collector?

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Michael_Maggs (Michael Maggs) April 2, 2019, 4:41pm 11

I’ve added this to the list at Discussion of new guidelines for uploaded sentence validation as an example of the type of sentence to be rejected.

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