Designing the Business Conversation Corpus
Matīss Rikters, Ryokan Ri, Tong Li, Toshiaki Nakazawa
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Abstract
While the progress of machine translation of written text has come far in the past several years thanks to the increasing availability of parallel corpora and corpora-based training technologies, automatic translation of spoken text and dialogues remains challenging even for modern systems. In this paper, we aim to boost the machine translation quality of conversational texts by introducing a newly constructed Japanese-English business conversation parallel corpus. A detailed analysis of the corpus is provided along with challenging examples for automatic translation. We also experiment with adding the corpus in a machine translation training scenario and show how the resulting system benefits from its use.
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Benchmark Results
| Dataset | Model | Metric | Claimed | Verified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business Scene Dialogue EN-JA | Transformer-base | BLEU | 13.53 | — | Unverified |
| Business Scene Dialogue JA-EN | Transformer-base | BLEU | 12.88 | — | Unverified |