--- language: - it license: other license_name: copyrighted-research-purposes license_link: LICENSE tags: - word-game - rebus - italian - word-puzzle - crossword language_creators: - expert-generated pretty_name: eureka-rebus size_categories: - 100K Last data update: September 17th, 2024. Refer to the [changelog](./CHANGELOG.md) for a list of revisions that can be loaded with the `revision` parameter in `load_dataset`. ### Dataset Summary This dataset contains the original collection of over 200k first passes and solution for Italian rebuses published in various Italian magazines dating back to 1869. The original data are hosted in the [Eureka5](http://www.eureka5.it) platform of the [Associazione Culturale "Biblioteca Enigmistica Italiana - G. Panini"](http://www.enignet.it). This release includes a subset of verbalized rebuses created for the paper [Non Verbis, Sed Rebus: Large Language Models are Weak Solvers of Italian Rebuses](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00584) by combining the original collection with Italian crossword definitions sourced from the [ITA_CW](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Kamyar-zeinalipour/ITA_CW) dataset. For further information, see our [code](https://github.com/gsarti/verbalized-rebus) and [artifacts collection](https://huggingface.co/collections/gsarti/verbalized-rebus-clic-it-2024-66ab8f11cb04e68bdf4fb028). ### Data Splits | Name | Number of Samples | Description | --- | --- | --- | | rebus | 223,007 | Transcribed rebus puzzles downloaded as-is from Eureka5 | | verbalized_rebus | 83,158 | Subset of rebus puzzles with verbalized first passes using ItaCW definitions | | llm_sft | 83,158 | Training and test splits of verbalized rebuses converted in chat format for fine-tuning LLMs | ### Rebus #### Fields - `FRASE`: Rebus solution phrase. - `PRIMALET`: First pass of the rebus, from which the solution is derived via re-segmentation. - `AUTORE`: Author of the rebus. - `RIVISTA`: Magazine where the rebus was published. - `MESE`: Month or issue number of the magazine. - `ANNO`: Year of publication. - `TIPO`: Rebus category (regular if empty). See [all available categories](http://www.eureka5.it/public/Leg_RebusSearchCrud). - `NOTE`: Additional notes on the rebus. #### Rebus Data Sample ```json { "FRASE": "Non vi sono difficoltà a l'amore sincero", "PRIMALET": "N O N - viso - nodi - F fico - L T A A L - amo RE - S in cero", "AUTORE": "-", "RIVISTA": "RPC", "MESE": "0", "ANNO": "1869", "TIPO": "", "NOTE": "" } ``` ### Verbalized Rebus #### Additional Fields - `WORDS_PRIMALET`: Ordered list of words in the rebus first pass phrase (`PRIMALET`), whitespace-separated. - `LETTERS_PRIMALET`: Ordered list of letters in the rebus first pass phrase (`PRIMALET`), whitespace-separated. - `DIAGRAMMA_FRASE`: Solution key for the rebus solution (`FRASE`), derived automatically from word lengths. - `FRASE_SEPARATED`: Whitespace-tokenized solution phrase (`FRASE`). - `VERBALIZED_PRIMALET`: Verbalized first pass phrase (`PRIMALET`) using Italian crossword definitions. - `VERBALIZED_PRIMALET_WITH_LEN`: Verbalized first pass phrase (`PRIMALET`) using Italian crossword definitions, including solution words lengths. #### Verbalized Rebus Data Sample ```json { "FRASE": "Non vi sono difficoltà a l'amore sincero", "PRIMALET": "N O N - viso - nodi - F fico - L T A A L - amo RE - S in cero", "AUTORE": "-", "RIVISTA": "RPC", "MESE": "0", "ANNO": "1869", "TIPO": "", "NOTE": "", "WORDS_PRIMALET": "viso nodi fico amo in cero", "LETTERS_PRIMALET": "N O N F L T A A L R E S", "DIAGRAMMA_FRASE": "3 2 4 10 1 1 ' 5 7", "FRASE_SEPARATED": "Non vi sono difficoltà a l ' amore sincero", "VERBALIZED_PRIMALET": "N O N [Volto, faccia] [Possono essere scorsoi] F [C'è anche quello d'India] L T A A L [Un' insidia subacquea] RE S [Alla moda... inglese] [Si accende in chiesa]", "VERBALIZED_PRIMALET_WITH_LEN": "N O N [Volto, faccia (4)] [Possono essere scorsoi (4)] F [C'è anche quello d'India (4)] L T A A L [Un' insidia subacquea (3)] RE S [Alla moda... inglese (2)] [Si accende in chiesa (4)]" } ``` ### Licensing and Contact Information Please refer to our [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for details on the licensing of the data. For any questions or requests regarding the original data, please contact the [Eureka5 maintainers](mailto:bei.eureka5@gmail.com). For questions or requests regarding the verbalized rebuses or this repository, please contact [Gabriele Sarti](mailto:gabriele.sarti996@gmail.com) ### Citation Information If you use this dataset in your work, please cite our paper as follows: ```bibtex @article{sarti-etal-2024-rebus, title = "Non Verbis, Sed Rebus: Large Language Models are Weak Solvers of Italian Rebuses", author = "Sarti, Gabriele and Caselli, Tommaso and Nissim, Malvina and Bisazza, Arianna", journal = "ArXiv", month = jul, year = "2024", volume = {abs/2408.00584}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00584}, } ``` ## Acknowledgements We are grateful to the [Associazione Culturale "Biblioteca Enigmistica Italiana - G. Panini"](http://www.enignet.it/home) for making its rebus collection freely accessible on the [Eureka5 platform](http://www.eureka5.it).