ZurichNLP/paws-x-italian

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language:
- it
tags:
- paraphrase
- italian
- synthetic
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[](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.07538)

# 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:

```bibtex
@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},
}
```