Dataset card

Description

Seed data in Italian

License

CC-BY-SA-4.0

Attribution

The dataset is described in the following paper:

@inproceedings{wmt24-seed-italian,
    title="A high-quality Seed dataset for {Italian} machine translation",
    author="Edoardo Ferrante",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Machine Translation",
    month = nov,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Miami, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics"
}

It is based on the original work of:

@inproceedings{zenamt24,
    title = {{I}talian-{L}igurian Machine Translation in Its Cultural Context},
    author = {Haberland, Christopher R. and Maillard, Jean and Lusito, Stefano},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages @ {LREC}-{COLING} 2024},
    year = {2024},
    url = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.sigul-1.21},
    pages = {168--176},
}

Language codes

ISO 639-3: ita
ISO 15924: Latn
Glottocode: ital1282

Additional language information

The data is in standard Italian, as spoken in the Republic of Italy. Further information on the history of the language is available in V. Coletti, Storia dell'italiano letterario, Einaudi, 2022. Spellcheckers for this language are available natively on all major word processing software packages and via Hunspell.

Workflow

An initial version of this data, machine translated from English and partially post-edited, was released by Haberland et al. (see Attribution section). The data was subsequently reviewed in its entirety by two native speakers of Italian and further post-edited to ensure high quality. Please refer to the paper for further information.