NAIST-SIC-Aligned: an Aligned English-Japanese Simultaneous Interpretation Corpus

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11766v4
• Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2024 01:07:54 GMT
• Title: NAIST-SIC-Aligned: an Aligned English-Japanese Simultaneous Interpretation Corpus
• Authors: Jinming Zhao, Yuka Ko, Kosuke Doi, Ryo Fukuda, Katsuhito Sudoh, Satoshi Nakamura,
• Abstract summary: It remains a question that how simultaneous interpretation (SI) data affects simultaneous machine translation (SiMT) We introduce NAIST-SIC-Aligned, which is an automatically-aligned parallel English-Japanese SI dataset. Our results show that models trained with SI data lead to significant improvement in translation quality and latency over baselines.
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• Abstract: It remains a question that how simultaneous interpretation (SI) data affects simultaneous machine translation (SiMT). Research has been limited due to the lack of a large-scale training corpus. In this work, we aim to fill in the gap by introducing NAIST-SIC-Aligned, which is an automatically-aligned parallel English-Japanese SI dataset. Starting with a non-aligned corpus NAIST-SIC, we propose a two-stage alignment approach to make the corpus parallel and thus suitable for model training. The first stage is coarse alignment where we perform a many-to-many mapping between source and target sentences, and the second stage is fine-grained alignment where we perform intra- and inter-sentence filtering to improve the quality of aligned pairs. To ensure the quality of the corpus, each step has been validated either quantitatively or qualitatively. This is the first open-sourced large-scale parallel SI dataset in the literature. We also manually curated a small test set for evaluation purposes. Our results show that models trained with SI data lead to significant improvement in translation quality and latency over baselines. We hope our work advances research on SI corpora construction and SiMT. Our data can be found at https://github.com/mingzi151/AHC-SI.

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