PhoMT: A High-Quality and Large-Scale Benchmark Dataset for Vietnamese-English Machine Translation

Long Doan, Linh The Nguyen, Nguyen Luong Tran, Thai Hoang, Dat Quoc Nguyen


Abstract
We introduce a high-quality and large-scale Vietnamese-English parallel dataset of 3.02M sentence pairs, which is 2.9M pairs larger than the benchmark Vietnamese-English machine translation corpus IWSLT15. We conduct experiments comparing strong neural baselines and well-known automatic translation engines on our dataset and find that in both automatic and human evaluations: the best performance is obtained by fine-tuning the pre-trained sequence-to-sequence denoising auto-encoder mBART. To our best knowledge, this is the first large-scale Vietnamese-English machine translation study. We hope our publicly available dataset and study can serve as a starting point for future research and applications on Vietnamese-English machine translation. We release our dataset at: https://github.com/VinAIResearch/PhoMT
Anthology ID:
2021.emnlp-main.369
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Month:
November
Year:
2021
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Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
Editors:
Marie-Francine Moens, Xuanjing Huang, Lucia Specia, Scott Wen-tau Yih
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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4495–4503
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.369
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.369
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Long Doan, Linh The Nguyen, Nguyen Luong Tran, Thai Hoang, and Dat Quoc Nguyen. 2021. PhoMT: A High-Quality and Large-Scale Benchmark Dataset for Vietnamese-English Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 4495–4503, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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PhoMT: A High-Quality and Large-Scale Benchmark Dataset for Vietnamese-English Machine Translation (Doan et al., EMNLP 2021)
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 vinairesearch/phomt
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PhoMTOpenSubtitlesWikiMatrix