Quantitative Analysis of Editing in Transcription Process in Japanese and European Parliaments and its Diachronic Changes

Tatsuya Kawahara


Abstract
In making official transcripts for meeting records in Parliament, some edits are made from faithful transcripts of utterances for linguistic correction and formality. Classification of these edits is provided in this paper, and quantitative analysis is conducted for Japanese and European Parliamentary meetings by comparing the faithful transcripts of audio recordings against the official meeting records. Different trends are observed between the two Parliaments due to the nature of the language used and the meeting style. Moreover, its diachronic changes in the Japanese transcripts are presented, showing a significant decrease in the edits over the past decades. It was found that a majority of edits in the Japanese Parliament (Diet) simply remove fillers and redundant words, keeping the transcripts as verbatim as possible. This property is useful for the evaluation of the automatic speech transcription system, which was developed by us and has been used in the Japanese Parliament.
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2024.parlaclarin-1.10
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Proceedings of the IV Workshop on Creating, Analysing, and Increasing Accessibility of Parliamentary Corpora (ParlaCLARIN) @ LREC-COLING 2024
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May
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2024
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Torino, Italia
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Darja Fiser, Maria Eskevich, David Bordon
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Tatsuya Kawahara. 2024. Quantitative Analysis of Editing in Transcription Process in Japanese and European Parliaments and its Diachronic Changes. In Proceedings of the IV Workshop on Creating, Analysing, and Increasing Accessibility of Parliamentary Corpora (ParlaCLARIN) @ LREC-COLING 2024, pages 66–69, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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Quantitative Analysis of Editing in Transcription Process in Japanese and European Parliaments and its Diachronic Changes (Kawahara, ParlaCLARIN-WS 2024)
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