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arXiv:2406.08940 (cs)
[Submitted on 13 Jun 2024 (v1), last revised 15 Jul 2024 (this version, v2)]
Title:Word Order in English-Japanese Simultaneous Interpretation: Analyses and Evaluation using Chunk-wise Monotonic Translation
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View PDFHTML (experimental)Abstract:This paper analyzes the features of monotonic translations, which follow the word order of the source language, in simultaneous interpreting (SI). Word order differences are one of the biggest challenges in SI, especially for language pairs with significant structural differences like English and Japanese. We analyzed the characteristics of chunk-wise monotonic translation (CMT) sentences using the NAIST English-to-Japanese Chunk-wise Monotonic Translation Evaluation Dataset and identified some grammatical structures that make monotonic translation difficult in English-Japanese SI. We further investigated the features of CMT sentences by evaluating the output from the existing speech translation (ST) and simultaneous speech translation (simulST) models on the NAIST English-to-Japanese Chunk-wise Monotonic Translation Evaluation Dataset as well as on existing test sets. The results indicate the possibility that the existing SI-based test set underestimates the model performance. The results also suggest that using CMT sentences as references gives higher scores to simulST models than ST models, and that using an offline-based test set to evaluate the simulST models underestimates the model performance.
| Comments: | Accepted to IWSLT2024 |
| Subjects: | Computation and Language (cs.CL) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2406.08940 [cs.CL] |
| (orarXiv:2406.08940v2 [cs.CL] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2406.08940 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite |
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From: Kosuke Doi [view email][v1] Thu, 13 Jun 2024 09:10:16 UTC (8,098 KB)
[v2] Mon, 15 Jul 2024 10:42:02 UTC (8,100 KB)
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