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1Jupyter NotebookAudience · researcherComplexity · 2/5Setup · easy

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IMPaCTS is a large Italian dataset of over a million sentence pairs pairing original text with simplified versions, built for training text simplification models.

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    What it does
      Pairs original sentences
      Provides simplifications
      Scores readability
    Tech stack
      HuggingFace
      git-lfs
    Use cases
      Train simplification models
      Evaluate readability
      Study Italian NLP
    Audience
      NLP researchers
    Setup
      Needs git-lfs
      Also on HuggingFace

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Train an Italian text simplification model using paired original and simplified sentences.

USE CASE 2

Evaluate a language model's simplification output against readability scores.

USE CASE 3

Study how sentence structure and vocabulary affect Italian text readability.

What is it built with?

Jupyter NotebookHuggingFacegit-lfs

How does it compare?

michelepapucci/impactscynikolai/sequence-cluster-learnerwenqijiang/deep-reinforcement-learning-for-atari-games
Stars111
LanguageJupyter NotebookJupyter NotebookJupyter Notebook
Last pushed2017-12-022018-12-25
MaintenanceDormantDormant
Setup difficultyeasyeasyhard
Complexity2/51/54/5
Audienceresearchergeneralresearcher

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 30min

Requires git-lfs to download the dataset archive from the repository.

License terms are not stated in the provided text.

So what is it?

IMPaCTS (Italian Multi-level Parallel Corpus for Controlled Text Simplification) is a research dataset for Italian text simplification. Text simplification is the task of rewriting complex sentences into plainer language while preserving meaning, useful for making public documents more accessible to general readers. This dataset provides training and evaluation data for building AI models that can do this for Italian. The dataset contains 1,066,828 sentence pairs. Each pair consists of a human-written original sentence from Wikipedia and Public Administration texts, alongside one or more machine-generated simplified versions. The average number of simplifications per original sentence is 9.6. The simplified sentences were generated automatically using an Italian language model prompted to produce multiple simplifications per input. Every row is annotated with readability scores for both the original sentence and its simplification. There are four readability scores per sentence: raw textual features (such as average characters per word), lexical features (vocabulary diversity), syntactic features (sentence tree depth and use of subordinate clauses), and an overall combined score. These scores come from the Read-it readability tool. The full set of extracted linguistic features is also included for both the original text and the simplification. The dataset is intended for researchers training or evaluating language models on controllable text simplification tasks. It is available as a zip archive in this repository (requires git-lfs to download) and also on HuggingFace. The repository accompanies a paper presented at LREC 2026.

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Prompt 1
Show me how to download this dataset with git-lfs and load it for training.
Prompt 2
Explain what the four readability scores in IMPaCTS measure and how they differ.
Prompt 3
Help me write a script to fine-tune a model on IMPaCTS sentence pairs for simplification.
Prompt 4
Compare loading this dataset from the repository versus from HuggingFace.

Frequently asked questions

What is impacts?

IMPaCTS is a large Italian dataset of over a million sentence pairs pairing original text with simplified versions, built for training text simplification models.

What language is impacts written in?

Mainly Jupyter Notebook. The stack also includes Jupyter Notebook, HuggingFace, git-lfs.

What license does impacts use?

License terms are not stated in the provided text.

How hard is impacts to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 30min to a first successful run.

Who is impacts for?

Mainly researcher.

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