Ella Paulina Bohman
2026
ParaCLEAN: Improving Translation Quality through Systematic Parallel Data Cleaning
Audrey Mash | Ella Paulina Bohman | Maite Melero
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Audrey Mash | Ella Paulina Bohman | Maite Melero
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Parallel corpora often contain significant noise, particularly in low-resource settings where both collected and synthetic data are combined. We present ParaCLEAN, a modular pipeline for cleaning parallel data that integrates embeddings-based filtering, language identification, deduplication, and normalisation. Experiments on Catalan to Japanese translation demonstrate that ParaCLEAN improves data quality and downstream MT performance. Ablation studies highlight the contribution of each step. ParaCLEAN is lightweight, reproducible, and extensible for diverse language pairs.