Datasets:

ZurichNLP
/

paws-x-italian

language:
  - it
tags:
  - paraphrase
  - italian
  - synthetic
dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: id
      dtype: int32
    - name: sentence1
      dtype: string
    - name: sentence2
      dtype: string
    - name: label
      dtype:
        class_label:
          names:
            '0': '0'
            '1': '1'
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_bytes: 12714604
      num_examples: 49401
    - name: test
      num_bytes: 509309
      num_examples: 1977
    - name: validation
      num_bytes: 511699
      num_examples: 2000

PAWS-X Italian Paraphrase Dataset

This dataset is a machine-translated Italian version of the English PAWS-X dataset. The original PAWS-X dataset (Yang et al. 2019) is a multilingual version of PAWS (Zhang et al. 2019) for paraphrase identification.

Dataset Structure

Data Fields

sentence1: First sentence in the pair
sentence2: Second sentence in the pair
labels:
- 0: Non-paraphrases
- 1: Paraphrases

Data Splits

The dataset is split into:

Training set
Validation set
Test set

This dataset has been created within the SwissGov-RSD: A Human-annotated, Cross-lingual Benchmark for Token-level Recognition of Semantic Differences Between Related Documents project:

@misc{wastl2025swissgovrsdhumanannotatedcrosslingualbenchmark,
      title={SwissGov-RSD: A Human-annotated, Cross-lingual Benchmark for Token-level Recognition of Semantic Differences Between Related Documents}, 
      author={Michelle Wastl and Jannis Vamvas and Rico Sennrich},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2512.07538},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07538}, 
}