diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 25241c6..90fb05e 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ data/raw/
 data/db/
 data/nltk/
 data/training/
+data/validation/
 data/evaluation/
 
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