K-pop Lyric Translation: Dataset, Analysis, and Neural-Modelling

Haven Kim, Jongmin Jung, Dasaem Jeong, Juhan Nam


Abstract
Lyric translation, a field studied for over a century, is now attracting computational linguistics researchers. We identified two limitations in previous studies. Firstly, lyric translation studies have predominantly focused on Western genres and languages, with no previous study centering on K-pop despite its popularity. Second, the field of lyric translation suffers from a lack of publicly available datasets; to the best of our knowledge, no such dataset exists. To broaden the scope of genres and languages in lyric translation studies, we introduce a novel singable lyric translation dataset, approximately 89% of which consists of K-pop song lyrics. This dataset aligns Korean and English lyrics line-by-line and section-by-section. We leveraged this dataset to unveil unique characteristics of K-pop lyric translation, distinguishing it from other extensively studied genres, and to construct a neural lyric translation model, thereby underscoring the importance of a dedicated dataset for singable lyric translations.
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2024.lrec-main.872
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Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
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May
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2024
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Torino, Italia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, Nianwen Xue
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LREC | COLING
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9974–9987
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Haven Kim, Jongmin Jung, Dasaem Jeong, and Juhan Nam. 2024. K-pop Lyric Translation: Dataset, Analysis, and Neural-Modelling. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 9974–9987, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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K-pop Lyric Translation: Dataset, Analysis, and Neural-Modelling (Kim et al., LREC-COLING 2024)
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