---
language:
- de
license: apache-2.0
tags:
- austrian-german
- instruction-tuning
- sft
- chat
- austria
pretty_name: Austrian German Instruction Dataset
size_categories:
- n<1K
task_categories:
- text-generation
- question-answering
extra_gated_prompt: >-
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  Access is granted to verified researchers and organizations.
  Please describe your intended use case.
extra_gated_fields:
  Full name: text
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    type: checkbox
---

# AT-Instruct: Austrian German Instructions

500 instruction-response pairs written in Austrian German. Not translated from English or Bundesdeutsch — written from scratch with Austrian vocabulary, institutions, and perspective.

## Why this exists

Every German instruction dataset I found was either translated from English (losing all cultural context) or written in Bundesdeutsch. If you fine-tune on those, your model will tell users to go to the "Bürgeramt" — which doesn't exist in Austria. Here it's the Magistrat.

So I wrote these manually. Erdapfel, not Kartoffel. ABGB, not BGB. Obers, not Sahne.

## What's in it

| Category | Count |
|----------|-------|
| Wortschatz (vocab) | 108 |
| Alltag (daily life) | 62 |
| Kochen (cooking) | 53 |
| Geographie | 45 |
| Behördenweg (bureaucracy) | 40 |
| Verkehr (transport) | 40 |
| Kultur | 40 |
| Gesundheit | 40 |
| Bildung (education) | 36 |
| Natur & Freizeit | 36 |

## Format

```json
{
  "instruction": "Erklaere mir, wie ich mich in Wien anmelden kann.",
  "response": "Du gehst zum Magistratischen Bezirksamt deines Bezirks...",
  "category": "behoerdenweg",
  "register": "formal_austrian",
  "source": "hand_written"
}
```

## Usage

```python
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("Laborator/austrian-german-instructions")
```

## Files

- `data/at_instruct_v1.jsonl`
- `data/at_instruct_v1.parquet`

## Known limitations

500 pairs is small for serious fine-tuning. I'm working on v2 with 2000+. But it's enough to see if an Austrian German adapter actually helps — and it does.

## License

Apache 2.0