---
annotations_creators:
- crowd-sourced
language_creators:
- unknown
language:
- it
license:
- cc-by-4.0
multilinguality:
- unknown
size_categories:
- unknown
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- text2text-generation
task_ids:
- text-simplification
pretty_name: SIMPITIKI
---

# Dataset Card for GEM/SIMPITIKI

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage:** https://github.com/dhfbk/simpitiki
- **Repository:** https://github.com/dhfbk/simpitiki/tree/master/corpus
- **Paper:** http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1749/paper52.pdf
- **Leaderboard:** N/A
- **Point of Contact:** Sara Tonelli

### Link to Main Data Card

You can find the main data card on the [GEM Website](https://gem-benchmark.com/data_cards/SIMPITIKI).

### Dataset Summary 

SIMPITIKI is an Italian Simplification dataset. Its examples were selected from Italian Wikipedia such that their editing tracking descriptions contain any of the words "Simplified"/"Simplify"/"Simplification". 

You can load the dataset via:
```
import datasets
data = datasets.load_dataset('GEM/SIMPITIKI')
```
The data loader can be found [here](https://huggingface.co/datasets/GEM/SIMPITIKI).

#### website
[Github](https://github.com/dhfbk/simpitiki)

#### paper
[Website](http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1749/paper52.pdf)

#### authors
Sara Tonelli (Fondazione Bruno Kessler), Alessio Palmero Aprosio (Fondazione Bruno Kessler), Francesca Saltori (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)

## Dataset Overview

### Where to find the Data and its Documentation

#### Webpage

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[Github](https://github.com/dhfbk/simpitiki)

#### Download

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[Github](https://github.com/dhfbk/simpitiki/tree/master/corpus)

#### Paper

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[Website](http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1749/paper52.pdf)

#### BibTex

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```
@article{tonelli2016simpitiki,
  title={SIMPITIKI: a Simplification corpus for Italian},
  author={Tonelli, Sara and Aprosio, Alessio Palmero and Saltori, Francesca},
  journal={Proceedings of CLiC-it},
  year={2016}
}
```

#### Contact Name

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Sara Tonelli

#### Contact Email

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satonelli@fbk.eu

#### Has a Leaderboard?

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no


### Languages and Intended Use

#### Multilingual?

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no

#### Covered Dialects

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None

#### Covered Languages

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`Italian`

#### License

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cc-by-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

#### Intended Use

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The purpose of the dataset is to train NLG models to simplify complex text by learning different types of transformations (verb to noun, noun to verbs, deletion, insertion, etc)

#### Primary Task

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Simplification

#### Communicative Goal

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This dataset aims to enhance research in text simplification in Italian language with different text transformations.


### Credit

#### Curation Organization Type(s)

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`academic`, `independent`

#### Curation Organization(s)

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Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK)

#### Dataset Creators

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Sara Tonelli (Fondazione Bruno Kessler), Alessio Palmero Aprosio (Fondazione Bruno Kessler), Francesca Saltori (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)

#### Funding

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EU Horizon 2020 Programme via the SIMPATICO Project (H2020-EURO-6-2015, n. 692819)

#### Who added the Dataset to GEM?

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Sebastien Montella (Orange Labs), Vipul Raheja (Grammarly Inc.)


### Dataset Structure

#### Data Fields

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Each sample comes with the following fields:

- `gem_id` (string): Unique sample ID
-`text` (string): The raw text to be simplified
-`simplified_text` (string): The simplified version of "text" field
-`transformation_type` (string): Nature of transformation applied to raw text in order to simplify it.
-`source_dataset` (string): Initial dataset source of sample. Values: 'itwiki' (for Italian Wikipedia) or 'tn' (manually annotated administrative documents from the Municipality of Trento, Italy)

#### Reason for Structure

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The dataset is organized as a pairs where the raw text (input) is associated with its simplified text (output). The editing transformation and the source dataset of each sample is also provided for advanced analysis.

#### How were labels chosen?

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SIMPITIKI dataset selects documents from Italian Wikipedia such that their editing tracking descriptions contain any of the words "Simplified"/"Simplify"/"Simplification".  For the Public Administration domain of the documents of the Municipality of Trento (Italy)

#### Example Instance

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```
{"transformation_id": 31, "transformation_type": "Transformation - Lexical Substitution (word level)", "source_dataset": "tn", "text": "- assenza per <del>e</del>si<del>genze</del> particolari attestate da relazione dei servizi sociali;", "simplified_text": "- assenza per <ins>bi</ins>s<ins>ogn</ins>i particolari attestati da relazione dei servizi sociali;"}
```

#### Data Splits

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Several splits are proposed to train models on different configurations:

-"train": Training samples randomly selected from initial corpus. 816 training samples.
-"validation": Validating samples randomly selected from initial corpus. 174 validating samples.
-"test": Testing samples randomly selected from initial corpus. 176 validating samples.
-"challenge_seen_transformations_train": This training challenge split includes specific transformations to simplify the raw text. Precisely, transformations are "Split", "Merge", "Reordering", "Insert - Verb", "Insert - Other", "Delete - Verb", "Delete - Other", "Transformation - Lexical Substitution (word level)", "Transformation - Anaphoric replacement", "Transformation - Noun to Verb", "Transformation - Verbal Features". 562 training samples.
-"challenge_seen_transformations_val": This validating challenge split includes same transformations than the ones observed in training. Precisely, transformations are "Split", "Merge", "Reordering", "Insert - Verb", "Insert - Other", "Delete - Verb", "Delete - Other", "Transformation - Lexical Substitution (word level)", "Transformation - Anaphoric replacement", "Transformation - Noun to Verb", "Transformation - Verbal Features". 121 validating samples.
-"challenge_seen_transformations_test": This testing challenge split includes same transformations than the ones observed in training. Precisely, transformations are "Split", "Merge", "Reordering", "Insert - Verb", "Insert - Other", "Delete - Verb", "Delete - Other", "Transformation - Lexical Substitution (word level)", "Transformation - Anaphoric replacement", "Transformation - Noun to Verb", "Transformation - Verbal Features". 127 testing samples.
-"challenge_unseen_transformations_test" : "Insert - Subject", "Delete - Subject", "Transformation - Lexical Substitution (phrase level)", "Transformation - Verb to Noun (nominalization)", "Transformation - Verbal Voice". 356 testing samples.
-"challenge_itwiki_train": This challenge split includes random samples from the Italian Wikipedia as source dataset. 402 training samples.
-"challenge_itwiki_val": This validating challenge split includes random samples from the Italian Wikipedia as source dataset. 86 validating samples.
-"challenge_itwiki_test": This testing challenge split includes random samples from the Italian Wikipedia as source dataset. 87 testing samples.
-"challenge_tn_test": This testing challenge split includes all samples from the Municipality of Trento administrative documents ('tn') as source dataset. 591 testing samples.





#### Splitting Criteria

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The training ratio is set to 0.7. The validation and test somehow equally divide the remaining 30% of the dataset. 



## Dataset in GEM

### Rationale for Inclusion in GEM

#### Why is the Dataset in GEM?

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This dataset promotes Simplification task for Italian language.

#### Similar Datasets

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no

#### Ability that the Dataset measures

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Models can be evaluated if they can simplify text regarding different simplification transformations.


### GEM-Specific Curation

#### Modificatied for GEM?

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yes

#### Additional Splits?

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yes

#### Split Information

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The SIMPITIKI dataset provides a single file. Several splits are proposed to train models on different configurations:
-"train": Training samples randomly selected from initial corpus. 816 training samples.
-"validation": Validating samples randomly selected from initial corpus. 174 validating samples.
-"test": Testing samples randomly selected from initial corpus. 176 validating samples.
-"challenge_seen_transformations_train": This training challenge split includes specific transformations to simplify the raw text. Precisely, transformations are "Split", "Merge", "Reordering", "Insert - Verb", "Insert - Other", "Delete - Verb", "Delete - Other", "Transformation - Lexical Substitution (word level)", "Transformation - Anaphoric replacement", "Transformation - Noun to Verb", "Transformation - Verbal Features". 562 training samples.
-"challenge_seen_transformations_val": This validating challenge split includes same transformations than the ones observed in training. Precisely, transformations are "Split", "Merge", "Reordering", "Insert - Verb", "Insert - Other", "Delete - Verb", "Delete - Other", "Transformation - Lexical Substitution (word level)", "Transformation - Anaphoric replacement", "Transformation - Noun to Verb", "Transformation - Verbal Features". 121 validating samples.
-"challenge_seen_transformations_test": This testing challenge split includes same transformations than the ones observed in training. Precisely, transformations are "Split", "Merge", "Reordering", "Insert - Verb", "Insert - Other", "Delete - Verb", "Delete - Other", "Transformation - Lexical Substitution (word level)", "Transformation - Anaphoric replacement", "Transformation - Noun to Verb", "Transformation - Verbal Features". 127 testing samples.
-"challenge_unseen_transformations_test" : "Insert - Subject", "Delete - Subject", "Transformation - Lexical Substitution (phrase level)", "Transformation - Verb to Noun (nominalization)", "Transformation - Verbal Voice". 356 testing samples.
-"challenge_itwiki_train": This challenge split includes random samples from the Italian Wikipedia as source dataset. 402 training samples.
-"challenge_itwiki_val": This validating challenge split includes random samples from the Italian Wikipedia as source dataset. 86 validating samples.
-"challenge_itwiki_test": This testing challenge split includes random samples from the Italian Wikipedia as source dataset. 87 testing samples.
-"challenge_tn_test": This testing challenge split includes all samples from the Municipality of Trento administrative documents ('tn') as source dataset. 591 testing samples.





#### Split Motivation

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The splits allows to investigate the generalization of models regarding editing/transformations ("challenge_seen_transformations_test" / "challenge_unseen_transformations_test") and for transfer learning to different domain ("challenge_tn_test")


### Getting Started with the Task

#### Pointers to Resources

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- Coster and Kauchak, Simple English Wikipedia: A New Text Simplification Task, Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 665–669, Portland, Oregon, June 19-24, 2011
- Xu et al, Optimizing Statistical Machine Translation for Text Simplification, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, vol. 4, pp. 401–415, 2016
- Aprosio et al, Neural Text Simplification in Low-Resource Conditions Using Weak Supervision, Proceedings of the Workshop on Methods for Optimizing and Evaluating Neural Language Generation (NeuralGen), pages 37–44, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, June 6, 2019


#### Technical Terms

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Simplification: Process that consists in transforming an input text to its simplified version.




## Previous Results

### Previous Results

#### Measured Model Abilities

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The splits allows to investigate the generalization of models regarding editing/transformations ("challenge_seen_transformations_test" / "challenge_unseen_transformations_test") and for transfer learning to different domain ("challenge_tn_test")

#### Metrics

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`BLEU`, `Other: Other Metrics`

#### Other Metrics

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FKBLEU (https://aclanthology.org/Q16-1029.pdf): Combines Flesch-Kincaid Index and iBLEU metrics.
SARI (https://aclanthology.org/Q16-1029.pdf): Compares system output against references and against the input sentence. It explicitly measures the goodness of words that are added, deleted and kept by the systems 
Word-level F1



#### Previous results available?

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no



## Dataset Curation

### Original Curation

#### Original Curation Rationale

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Most of the resources for Text Simplification are in English. To stimulate research to different languages, SIMPITIKI proposes an Italian corpus  with Complex-Simple sentence pairs. 

#### Communicative Goal

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Text simplification allows a smooth reading of text to enhance understanding.

#### Sourced from Different Sources

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yes

#### Source Details

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Italian Wikipedia
(Manually) Annotated administrative documents from the Municipality of Trento, Italy


### Language Data

#### How was Language Data Obtained?

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`Found`

#### Where was it found?

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`Single website`, `Offline media collection`

#### Language Producers

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SIMPITIKI is a combination of documents from Italian Wikipedia and from the Municipality of Trento, Italy.


#### Topics Covered

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Samples from documents from the Municipality of Trento corpus are in the administrative domain.

#### Data Validation

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validated by data curator

#### Was Data Filtered?

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not filtered


### Structured Annotations

#### Additional Annotations?

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crowd-sourced

#### Number of Raters

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unknown

#### Rater Qualifications

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Native speaker

#### Raters per Training Example

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0

#### Raters per Test Example

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0

#### Annotation Service?

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unknown

#### Annotation Values

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Annotators specified any of the tags as designed by Brunato et al. (https://aclanthology.org/W15-1604/):
-Split: Splitting a clause into two clauses.
-Merge: Merge two or more clauses together.
-Reordering:  Word order changes.
-Insert: Insertion of words or phrases that provide supportive information to the original sentence
-Delete: dropping redundant information.
-Transformation: Modification which can affect the sentence at the lexical, morpho-syntactic and syntactic level: Lexical substitution (word level) / Lexical substitution (phrase level) / Anaphoric replacement / Noun to Verb / Verb to Noun / Verbal voice / Verbal features/ morpho–syntactic and syntactic level, also giving rise to overlapping phenomena



#### Any Quality Control?

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unknown


### Consent

#### Any Consent Policy?

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no

#### Justification for Using the Data

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The dataset is available online under the CC-BY 4.0 license.


### Private Identifying Information (PII)

#### Contains PII?

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likely

#### Categories of PII

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`generic PII`

#### Any PII Identification?

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no identification


### Maintenance

#### Any Maintenance Plan?

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no



## Broader Social Context

### Previous Work on the Social Impact of the Dataset

#### Usage of Models based on the Data

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no


### Impact on Under-Served Communities

#### Addresses needs of underserved Communities?

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yes

#### Details on how Dataset Addresses the Needs

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The creator of SIMPITIKI wants to promote text simplification for Italian because few resources are available in other languages than English.


### Discussion of Biases

#### Any Documented Social Biases?

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unsure



## Considerations for Using the Data

### PII Risks and Liability



### Licenses

#### Copyright Restrictions on the Dataset

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`research use only`

#### Copyright Restrictions on the Language Data

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`research use only`


### Known Technical Limitations

#### Discouraged Use Cases

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The risk of surface-based metrics (BLEU, chrf++, etc) for this task is that semantic adequacy is not respected when simplifying the input document.