Public prices involving Barcelona Supercomputing Center
- Translation of multilingual reference corpora (benchmarks) into Catalan for evaluating language models (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Aina project, lot 1)
Won by SeproTec Traducción e Interpretación against 7 other tenders, 29% under the lot estimate, the deepest discount in the procedure. The notice states no word count.
The payer's own page, TED (EU Official Journal), contract award notice 2022/S 250-731229: Barcelona Supercomputing Center, creation and annotation of datasets to train and evaluate language models (CONSER02022005OP)
EUR 303,233.22 (lot 1; estimate EUR 426,123.84)per lot (4 months, one 4-month extension possible)
- CA-EN Parallel Corpus: about 15.0 million Catalan-English sentence pairs, human or human-proofread translation, tagged by domain and text type, bought with translation from a language vendor's own database under CC-BY (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Aina project)
A realised purchase of existing parallel text plus translation, won by Pangeanic BI Europa 10% under the estimate. The count is the sum of the card's seven text-type counts (583,353 + 6,420,644 + 3,709,344 + 543,010 + 1,379,021 + 1,346,845 + 985,761). The card says the data mixes human translation with machine translation and human proofreading, and was released under CC-BY, so the buyer also bought the right to publish it.
The payer's own page, TED (EU Official Journal), contract award notice 2022/S 250-731229: Barcelona Supercomputing Center, creation and annotation of datasets to train and evaluate language models (CONSER02022005OP)
EUR 175,500 (lot 8; estimate EUR 195,000)per lot (14,967,978 sentence pairs)
- caBreu: 3,000 Catalan news articles (about 700 words each) with extreme, abstractive and extractive summaries written by three annotators (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Aina project)
A public research centre paid Pangeanic BI Europa for a summary corpus. The award does not name the dataset; caBreu is the BSC's only published corpus of extractive and abstractive summaries, so treat the per-article figure as a match of the two records, not a figure either states.
The payer's own page, TED (EU Official Journal), contract award notice 2022/S 250-731229: Barcelona Supercomputing Center, creation and annotation of datasets to train and evaluate language models (CONSER02022005OP)
EUR 43,875 (lot 7; estimate EUR 45,000)per lot (3,000 summarised articles)
- InToxiCat: 29,809 Catalan forum sentences annotated for abusive language, with 6,047 abusive ones further annotated for spans, targets and explicitness (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Aina project)
A public research centre paid Pangeanic BI Europa to collect and annotate the corpus; each sentence was labelled by two annotators (a third on disagreement), so the price per sentence covers at least two judgements.
The payer's own page, TED (EU Official Journal), contract award notice 2022/S 250-731229: Barcelona Supercomputing Center, creation and annotation of datasets to train and evaluate language models (CONSER02022005OP)
EUR 30,846 (lot 6; estimate EUR 31,800)per lot (29,809 annotated sentences)
- Segmentation, alignment and translation of a speech corpus, to order, for language-model training (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Aina project, lot 9)
A public research centre's award to M47 AI Software for speech-corpus work; three tenders. Neither the notice nor a published BSC dataset card names the hours, so there is no per-hour figure.
The payer's own page, TED (EU Official Journal), contract award notice 2022/S 250-731229: Barcelona Supercomputing Center, creation and annotation of datasets to train and evaluate language models (CONSER02022005OP)
EUR 264,000 (lot 9; estimate EUR 295,200)per lot (4 months, one 4-month extension possible)
- CoQCat: 89,364 Catalan conversational question-answer pairs over 6,000 text passages, written to order on the CoQA model (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Aina project)
A public research centre paid M47 AI Software for annotators working in pairs (one asks, one answers) plus a third person for extra answers on the dev and test splits; the card says the annotation was entrusted to M47 labs through a public tender process. Per text passage the same award is EUR 14.00 (84,000 / 6,000).
The payer's own page, TED (EU Official Journal), contract award notice 2022/S 250-731229: Barcelona Supercomputing Center, creation and annotation of datasets to train and evaluate language models (CONSER02022005OP)
EUR 84,000 (lot 3; estimate EUR 90,000)per lot (89,364 question-answer pairs)
- Annotation and linking of named entities (NERC and entity linking) in Catalan text for language models (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Aina project, lot 2)
Won by M47 AI Software against 3 other tenders. The notice states no count of documents or entities.
The payer's own page, TED (EU Official Journal), contract award notice 2022/S 250-731229: Barcelona Supercomputing Center, creation and annotation of datasets to train and evaluate language models (CONSER02022005OP)
EUR 126,300 (lot 2; estimate EUR 139,200)per lot (4 months, one 4-month extension possible)
- NLUCat: nearly 12,000 Catalan voice-assistant instructions written to order and annotated with intents and spans, for training and evaluating language models (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Aina project)
A public research centre paid M47 AI Software (M47 Labs) to write and annotate the examples; three tenders, won about 6% under the lot estimate. The dataset card's split table totals 11,997 examples (9,117 train, 1,440 dev, 1,440 test), so the per-example price is all-in for writing, correction and annotation.
The payer's own page, TED (EU Official Journal), contract award notice 2022/S 250-731229: Barcelona Supercomputing Center, creation and annotation of datasets to train and evaluate language models (CONSER02022005OP)
EUR 18,836.49 (lot 5; estimate EUR 20,113.38)per lot (11,997 written and annotated examples)
- Annotation of polarity, emotions and opinion in Catalan text for language models (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Aina project, lot 4)
Won by M47 AI Software; three tenders. The notice states no count. The BSC later published three Catalan sentiment and emotion sets (CaSSA 6,400 texts, CaSET about 11,000 sentences, CaSERa 15,782 sentences) whose cards name no vendor, so no per-unit figure is drawn.
The payer's own page, TED (EU Official Journal), contract award notice 2022/S 250-731229: Barcelona Supercomputing Center, creation and annotation of datasets to train and evaluate language models (CONSER02022005OP)
EUR 89,000 (lot 4; estimate EUR 93,000)per lot (4 months, one 4-month extension possible)
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