DaCoM: Strategies to Construct Domain-specific Low-resource Language Machine Translation Dataset
Junghoon Kang, Keunjoo Tak, Joungsu Choi, Myunghyun Kim, Junyoung Jang, Youjin Kang
Abstract
Translation of low-resource languages in industrial domains is essential for improving market productivity and ensuring foreign workers have better access to information. However, existing translators struggle with domain-specific terms, and there is a lack of expert annotators for dataset creation. In this work, we propose DaCoM, a methodology for collecting low-resource language pairs from industrial domains to address these challenges. DaCoM is a hybrid translation framework enabling effective data collection. The framework consists of a large language model and neural machine translation. Evaluation verifies existing models perform inadequately on DaCoM-created datasets, with up to 53.7 BLEURT points difference depending on domain inclusion. DaCoM is expected to address the lack of datasets for domain-specific low-resource languages by being easily pluggable into future state-of-the-art models and maintaining an industrial domain-agnostic approach.- Anthology ID:
- 2025.coling-industry.53
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Industry Track
- Month:
- January
- Year:
- 2025
- Address:
- Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Editors:
- Owen Rambow, Leo Wanner, Marianna Apidianaki, Hend Al-Khalifa, Barbara Di Eugenio, Steven Schockaert, Kareem Darwish, Apoorv Agarwal
- Venue:
- COLING
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 612–624
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2025.coling-industry.53/
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Junghoon Kang, Keunjoo Tak, Joungsu Choi, Myunghyun Kim, Junyoung Jang, and Youjin Kang. 2025. DaCoM: Strategies to Construct Domain-specific Low-resource Language Machine Translation Dataset. In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Industry Track, pages 612–624, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- DaCoM: Strategies to Construct Domain-specific Low-resource Language Machine Translation Dataset (Kang et al., COLING 2025)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2025.coling-industry.53.pdf