Elormiden/Thesaurus-Cypriot-Greek-Dialect

Dataset Summary

This dataset is made available for research and academic purposes only. The underlying content is based on a copyrighted printed work:

Κ. Γ. ΓΙΑΓΚΟΥΛΛΗΣ, δ.φ.
ΘΗΣΑΥΡΟΣ
ΤΗΣ ΜΕΣΑΙΩΝΙΚΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΝΕΟΤΕΡΗΣ
ΚΥΠΡΙΑΚΗΣ ΔΙΑΛΕΚΤΟΥ
ΚΡΑΤΙΚΟ ΒΡΑΒΕΙΟ ΥΠΟΥΡΓΕΙΟΥ ΠΑΙΔΕΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ

The data structure includes four main fields:

• word: The dialectal Cypriot word (string)

• description: The extended definition or usage in Greek, often including historical and etymological notes

• greek_word: The equivalent term in Standard Modern Greek

• greek_description: A concise definition in Standard Greek

This resource is particularly useful for linguistic research, lexicography, NLP tasks involving Greek dialects, and digital preservation of regional languages.

Translation Model Usage

For automatic translation from Cypriot Greek dialect to Standard Modern Greek, we used the neural machine translation model:

ZiartisNikolas/NMT-cypriot-dialect-to-greek

This model helped validate and augment the mappings between dialectal forms and their modern equivalents.

Languages:

- el-cy (Cypriot Greek dialect)
- el (Standard Modern Greek)