Hashem Sellat
2023
Multi-Parallel Corpus of North Levantine Arabic
Mateusz Krubiński
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Hashem Sellat
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Shadi Saleh
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Adam Pospíšil
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Petr Zemánek
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Pavel Pecina
Proceedings of ArabicNLP 2023
Low-resource Machine Translation (MT) is characterized by the scarce availability of training data and/or standardized evaluation benchmarks. In the context of Dialectal Arabic, recent works introduced several evaluation benchmarks covering both Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and dialects, mapping, however, mostly to a single Indo-European language - English. In this work, we introduce a multi-lingual corpus consisting of 120,600 multi-parallel sentences in English, French, German, Greek, Spanish, and MSA selected from the OpenSubtitles corpus, which were manually translated into the North Levantine Arabic. By conducting a series of training and fine-tuning experiments, we explore how this novel resource can contribute to the research on Arabic MT.
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