A High-Quality Multilingual Dataset for Structured Documentation Translation

Kazuma Hashimoto, Raffaella Buschiazzo, James Bradbury, Teresa Marshall, Richard Socher, Caiming Xiong

Abstract
This paper presents a high-quality multilingual dataset for the documentation domain to advance research on localization of structured text. Unlike widely-used datasets for translation of plain text, we collect XML-structured parallel text segments from the online documentation for an enterprise software platform. These Web pages have been professionally translated from English into 16 languages and maintained by domain experts, and around 100,000 text segments are available for each language pair. We build and evaluate translation models for seven target languages from English, with several different copy mechanisms and an XML-constrained beam search. We also experiment with a non-English pair to show that our dataset has the potential to explicitly enable 17 × 16 translation settings. Our experiments show that learning to translate with the XML tags improves translation accuracy, and the beam search accurately generates XML structures. We also discuss trade-offs of using the copy mechanisms by focusing on translation of numerical words and named entities. We further provide a detailed human analysis of gaps between the model output and human translations for real-world applications, including suitability for post-editing.
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W19-5212
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Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation (Volume 1: Research Papers)
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August
Year:
2019
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Florence, Italy
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WMT
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SIGMT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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116–127
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https://aclanthology.org/W19-5212
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W19-5212
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Kazuma Hashimoto, Raffaella Buschiazzo, James Bradbury, Teresa Marshall, Richard Socher, and Caiming Xiong. 2019. A High-Quality Multilingual Dataset for Structured Documentation Translation. In Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation (Volume 1: Research Papers), pages 116–127, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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