# Dataset card

## Description

Seed data in Italian

## License

CC-BY-SA-4.0

## Attribution

The dataset is described in the following paper:
```bibtex
@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:
```bibtex
@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](https://hunspell.github.io).

## 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.