4 papers
An Automatic Quality Metric for Evaluating Simultaneous Interpretation
Mana Makinae, Katsuhito Sudoh, Masaru Yamada +1
Simultaneous interpretation (SI), the translation of one language to another in real time, starts translation before the original speech has finished. Its evaluation needs to consi…
Word Order in English-Japanese Simultaneous Interpretation: Analyses and Evaluation using Chunk-wise Monotonic Translation
Kosuke Doi, Yuka Ko, Mana Makinae +2
This paper analyzes the features of monotonic translations, which follow the word order of the source language, in simultaneous interpreting (SI). Word order differences are one of…
NAIST Simultaneous Speech Translation System for IWSLT 2024
Yuka Ko, Ryo Fukuda, Yuta Nishikawa +9
This paper describes NAIST's submission to the simultaneous track of the IWSLT 2024 Evaluation Campaign: English-to-{German, Japanese, Chinese} speech-to-text translation and Engli…
Simultaneous Interpretation Corpus Construction by Large Language Models in Distant Language Pair
Yusuke Sakai, Mana Makinae, Hidetaka Kamigaito +1
In Simultaneous Machine Translation (SiMT) systems, training with a simultaneous interpretation (SI) corpus is an effective method for achieving high-quality yet low-latency system…