@inproceedings{nagata-morishita-2020-test,
title = "A Test Set for Discourse Translation from {J}apanese to {E}nglish",
author = "Nagata, Masaaki and
Morishita, Makoto",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
month = may,
year = "2020",
address = "Marseille, France",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.457",
pages = "3704--3709",
abstract = "We made a test set for Japanese-to-English discourse translation to evaluate the power of context-aware machine translation. For each discourse phenomenon, we systematically collected examples where the translation of the second sentence depends on the first sentence. Compared with a previous study on test sets for English-to-French discourse translation (CITATION), we needed different approaches to make the data because Japanese has zero pronouns and represents different senses in different characters. We improved the translation accuracy using context-aware neural machine translation, and the improvement mainly reflects the betterment of the translation of zero pronouns.",
language = "English",
ISBN = "979-10-95546-34-4",
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%T A Test Set for Discourse Translation from Japanese to English
%A Nagata, Masaaki
%A Morishita, Makoto
%S Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
%D 2020
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%C Marseille, France
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%X We made a test set for Japanese-to-English discourse translation to evaluate the power of context-aware machine translation. For each discourse phenomenon, we systematically collected examples where the translation of the second sentence depends on the first sentence. Compared with a previous study on test sets for English-to-French discourse translation (CITATION), we needed different approaches to make the data because Japanese has zero pronouns and represents different senses in different characters. We improved the translation accuracy using context-aware neural machine translation, and the improvement mainly reflects the betterment of the translation of zero pronouns.
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%P 3704-3709
Markdown (Informal)
[A Test Set for Discourse Translation from Japanese to English](https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.457) (Nagata & Morishita, LREC 2020)
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