Corpus of Cross-lingual Dialogues with Minutes and Detection of Misunderstandings
arXiv:2512.20204 · doi:10.1007/978-3-032-02551-7_26
Abstract
Speech processing and translation technology have the potential to facilitate meetings of individuals who do not share any common language. To evaluate automatic systems for such a task, a versatile and realistic evaluation corpus is needed. Therefore, we create and present a corpus of cross-lingual dialogues between individuals without a common language who were facilitated by automatic simultaneous speech translation. The corpus consists of 5 hours of speech recordings with ASR and gold transcripts in 12 original languages and automatic and corrected translations into English. For the purposes of research into cross-lingual summarization, our corpus also includes written summaries (minutes) of the meetings. Moreover, we propose automatic detection of misunderstandings. For an overview of this task and its complexity, we attempt to quantify misunderstandings in cross-lingual meetings. We annotate misunderstandings manually and also test the ability of current large language models to detect them automatically. The results show that the Gemini model is able to identify text spans with misunderstandings with recall of 77% and precision of 47%.
12 pages, 2 figures, 6 tables, published as a conference paper in Text, Speech, and Dialogue 28th International Conference, TSD 2025, Erlangen, Germany, August 25-28, 2025, Proceedings, Part II. This version published here on arXiv.org is before review comments and seedings of the TSD conference staff