README.md

---
license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
- text-classification
language:
- lb
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
#source_datasets:
#- Luxembourg Online Dictionary (LOD)
configs:  # Optional. This can be used to pass additional parameters to the dataset loader, such as `data_files`, `data_dir`, and any builder-specific parameters  
- config_name: LETZ-SYN  # Example: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: LETZ-SYN/train.json
  - split: validation
    path: LETZ-SYN/val.json
  - split: test
    path: LETZ-SYN/test.json
- config_name: LETZ-WoT  # Example: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: LETZ-WoT/train.json
  - split: validation
    path: LETZ-WoT/val.json
  - split: test
    path: LETZ-WoT/test.json 
---

# Dataset Card for Luxembourgish Entailment-based Topic classification via Zero-shot learning (LETZ)

## Dataset Summary
The datasets for **L**uxembourgish **E**ntailment-based **T**opic classification via **Z**ero-shot learning (**LETZ**) can be used to adapt language models to zero-shot classification in Luxembourgish. It leverages data from the [*Luxembourg Online Dictionary*](https://lod.lu) to provide relevant topic classification examples in Luxembourgish. The LETZ datasets were created to address the limitations of using Natural Language Inference (NLI) datasets for zero-shot classification in low-resource languages. Specifically, they aim to improve topic classification performance by providing more relevant and accessible data through dictionary entries.

## Columns in the Dataset

Each dataset includes the following columns:

* **Text**: The Luxembourgish sentence or phrase.
* **Label**: The potentially associated topic label.
* **Class**: A binary indicator where “1” denotes relevance (entailment) and “0” denotes irrelevance (non-entailment).

## Dataset Description
- **Repository:** [fredxlpy/LETZ](https://github.com/fredxlpy/LETZ)
- **Paper:** [Forget NLI, Use a Dictionary: Zero-Shot Topic Classification for Low-Resource Languages with Application to Luxembourgish (Philippy et al., 2024)](https://aclanthology.org/2024.sigul-1.13/)
- **Source Data** [Luxembourg Online Dictionary](https://data.public.lu/en/datasets/letzebuerger-online-dictionnaire-lod-linguistesch-daten/)

## Citation Information
```
@inproceedings{philippy-etal-2024-forget,
    title = "Forget {NLI}, Use a Dictionary: Zero-Shot Topic Classification for Low-Resource Languages with Application to {L}uxembourgish",
    author = "Philippy, Fred  and
      Haddadan, Shohreh  and
      Guo, Siwen",
    editor = "Melero, Maite  and
      Sakti, Sakriani  and
      Soria, Claudia",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages @ LREC-COLING 2024",
    month = may,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Torino, Italia",
    publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.sigul-1.13",
    pages = "97--104"
}
```