An automatic model and Gold Standard for translation alignment of Ancient Greek

Tariq Yousef, Chiara Palladino, Farnoosh Shamsian, Anise d’Orange Ferreira, Michel Ferreira dos Reis


Abstract
This paper illustrates a workflow for developing and evaluating automatic translation alignment models for Ancient Greek. We designed an annotation Style Guide and a gold standard for the alignment of Ancient Greek-English and Ancient Greek-Portuguese, measured inter-annotator agreement and used the resulting dataset to evaluate the performance of various translation alignment models. We proposed a fine-tuning strategy that employs unsupervised training with mono- and bilingual texts and supervised training using manually aligned sentences. The results indicate that the fine-tuned model based on XLM-Roberta is superior in performance, and it achieved good results on language pairs that were not part of the training data.
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2022.lrec-1.634
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Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
June
Year:
2022
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Marseille, France
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association
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5894–5905
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.634
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Tariq Yousef, Chiara Palladino, Farnoosh Shamsian, Anise d’Orange Ferreira, and Michel Ferreira dos Reis. 2022. An automatic model and Gold Standard for translation alignment of Ancient Greek. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 5894–5905, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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An automatic model and Gold Standard for translation alignment of Ancient Greek (Yousef et al., LREC 2022)
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 ugaritalignment/alignment-gold-standards