Aldo Alvarez
2022
Jojajovai: A Parallel Guarani-Spanish Corpus for MT Benchmarking
Luis Chiruzzo
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Santiago Góngora
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Aldo Alvarez
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Gustavo Giménez-Lugo
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Marvin Agüero-Torales
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Yliana Rodríguez
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
This work presents a parallel corpus of Guarani-Spanish text aligned at sentence level. The corpus contains about 30,000 sentence pairs, and is structured as a collection of subsets from different sources, further split into training, development and test sets. A sample of sentences from the test set was manually annotated by native speakers in order to incorporate meta-linguistic annotations about the Guarani dialects present in the corpus and also the correctness of the alignment and translation. We also present some baseline MT experiments and analyze the results in terms of the subsets. We hope this corpus can be used as a benchmark for testing Guarani-Spanish MT systems, and aim to expand and improve the quality of the corpus in future iterations.