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Designing the Business Conversation Corpus
2020
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 benef…
Towards the evaluation of automatic simultaneous speech translation from a communicative perspective
2021
In recent years, automatic speech-to-speech and speech-to-text translation has gained momentum thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, especially in the domains of speech recognition and machine translation. The quality of such applications is commonly tested with automatic metrics, such as BLEU, primarily with the goal of assessing improvements of releases or in the context of evaluation campaigns. However, little is known about how the output of such systems is perceived by end users or how they compare to human performances in similar communicative tasks. In this paper, we present the results of an experiment aimed at evaluating the quality of a real-time speech translation engine…
Fast Neural Machine Translation Implementation
2018
This paper describes the submissions to the efficiency track for GPUs at the Workshop for Neural Machine Translation and Generation by members of the University of Edinburgh, Adam Mickiewicz University, Tilde and University of Alicante. We focus on efficient implementation of the recurrent deep-learning model as implemented in Amun, the fast inference engine for neural machine translation. We improve the performance with an efficient mini-batching algorithm, and by fusing the softmax operation with the k-best extraction algorithm. Submissions using Amun were first, second and third fastest in the GPU efficiency track.
Facilitating terminology translation with target lemma annotations
2021
Most of the recent work on terminology integration in machine translation has assumed that terminology translations are given already inflected in forms that are suitable for the target language sentence. In day-to-day work of professional translators, however, it is seldom the case as translators work with bilingual glossaries where terms are given in their dictionary forms; finding the right target language form is part of the translation process. We argue that the requirement for apriori specified target language forms is unrealistic and impedes the practical applicability of previous work. In this work, we propose to train machine translation systems using a source-side data augmentatio…
Ambiguity and complementation in recognizable two-dimensional languages
2008
The theory of one-dimensional (word) languages is well founded and investigated since fifties. From several years, the increasing interest for pattern recognition and image processing motivated the research on two-dimensional or picture languages, and nowadays this is a research field of great interest. A first attempt to formalize the concept of finite state recognizability for two-dimensional languages can be attributed to Blum and Hewitt ([7]) who started in 1967 the study of finite state devices that can define two-dimensional languages, with the aim to finding a counterpart of what regular languages are in one dimension. Since then, many approaches have been presented in the literature…
Arnold Zweig - Aufnahme in Polen
2016
Śląski niemieckojęzyczny autor – Arnold Zweig – zajmował się do końca swojego życia traumatycznym okresem I wojny światowej i napisał wiele dzieł poświęconych tej tematyce. Artykuł ten w pierwszej kolejności prezentuje zainteresowanie osobą Arnolda Zweiga w Polskiej Republice Ludowej oraz opisuje recepcję tłumaczeń jego powieści autorstwa nieżyjącej już tłumaczki Wandy Kragen. W drugiej części niniejszej publikacji autorka skupia się na scharakteryzowaniu powieści „Junge Frau von 1914“ (Młoda kobieta z roku 1914).
A dynamic program analysis to find floating-point accuracy problems
2012
Programs using floating-point arithmetic are prone to accuracy problems caused by rounding and catastrophic cancellation. These phenomena provoke bugs that are notoriously hard to track down: the program does not necessarily crash and the results are not necessarily obviously wrong, but often subtly inaccurate. Further use of these values can lead to catastrophic errors.In this paper, we present a dynamic program analysis that supports the programmer in finding accuracy problems. Our analysis uses binary translation to perform every floating-point computation side by side in higher precision. Furthermore, we use a lightweight slicing approach to track the evolution of errors.We evaluate our…
A Polysystemic Study of Folk Literature in Nineteenth-Century Norway
1999
The Norwegian Folktales, collected, transcribed and re-written by Per Christian Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe from 1842, had a pivotal role in the shaping of a cultural and linguistic identity in the emerging nation-state. After four centuries of ‘union’ where Denmark and Sweden were the dominant partners, Norway was finally declared an independent nation state in 1914. The folktales, handed down orally through the generations across the country, embodied important symbolical, cultural and linguistic characteristics from the rural environment. The paper describes the context and process through which The Norwegian Folktales influenced both the emerging natonal identity and the emerging Norwegia…
La sufixació apreciativa del català: creacions lèxiques i implicacions morfològiques
2015
Resum: La situació de la derivació apreciativa dins la morfologia és excepcional, perquè la informació limitada que contenen, en general, les gramàtiques i els diccionaris sobre els apreciatius així com l’ús habitual d’aquestes formes en contextos familiars i informals fan que la creativitat dels parlants no es vegi limitada per normatives i que, per tant, aflorin solucions imaginatives, que, tot i la variació existent, segueixen uns condicionaments gramaticals clars. L’objectiu d’aquest treball és aportar noves dades en aquest camp a partir de formes recollides en corpus tradicionals i per internet, amb una doble finalitat: d’una banda, aprofundir en les particularitats morfològiques de la…
USING FORUM COLLABORATIVE SETTINGS FOR TRANSLATION OUTCOMES: A THREAT TO TRANSLATION PROFESSIONALS?
2018
Translation and transcreation can both be considered as practices carried out by professionals trained in the communication of languages, cultures and situational settings. However, a growing number of internet users resort to the Internet to equip themselves with language knowledge, exploiting the collaborative setting the Internet provides. Online collaboration is based on the new culture of openness and engagement, which is negotiated via interaction with the final aim of providing a possible good, and “professional-like”, translation. As stated by Guyon (2010, 33), coordination and discussion between participants are part and parcel of the translation process. Although fora have thoroug…