# Dataset card

## Description

Seed data in Ligurian

## License

CC-BY-SA-4.0

## Attribution

```bibtex
@inproceedings{seed-23,
    title = {Small Data, Big Impact: Leveraging Minimal Data for Effective Machine Translation},
    author = {Maillard, Jean and Gao, Cynthia and Kalbassi, Elahe and Sadagopan, Kaushik Ram and Goswami, Vedanuj and Koehn, Philipp and Fan, Angela and Guzmán, Francisco},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)},
    year = {2023},
    address = {Toronto, Canada},
    publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
    pages = {2740--2756},
    url = {https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.154},
}
```

## Language codes

* ISO 639-3: lij
* ISO 15924: Latn
* Glottocode: geno1240

## Additional language information

The data is in the Genoese dialect, using traditional spelling as codified in the following reference dictionaries:
* S. Lusito (2022) Dizionario italiano-genovese, Programma, ISBN 9788866438205.
* The Council for Ligurian Linguistic Heritage’s [online Italian-Genoese dictionary](https://conseggio-ligure.org/en/dictionary/deize/).
* E. Autelli, S. Lusito, C. Konecny, F. Toso (2018-2021) [GEPHRAS](https://romanistik-gephras.uibk.ac.at/).

Reference grammar:
* F. Toso (1997) Grammatica del genovese: varietà urbana e di koinè, Le Mani, ISBN 9788880120728.

## Workflow

This data was released as part of the NLLB-Seed dataset. It has undergone minor spelling and syntactic fixes following community feedback and additional quality assessment. Please refer to the paper for further information.

## Additional guidelines