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Standard German Subtitling of Swiss German TV content: the PASSAGE Project

Presented atMarseille, 20-25 June 2022
PublisherMarseille, France : European Language Resources Association
Publication date2022-06-13
Abstract

In Switzerland, two thirds of the population speak Swiss German, a primarily spoken language with no standardised written form. It is widely used on Swiss TV, for example in news reports, interviews or talk shows, and subtitles are required for people who cannot understand this spoken language. This paper focuses on the task of automatic Standard German subtitling of spoken Swiss German, and more specifically on the translation of a normalised Swiss German speech recognition result into Standard German suitable for subtitles. Our contribution consists of a comparison of different statistical and deep learning MT systems for this task and an aligned corpus of normalised Swiss German and Standard German subtitles. Results of two evaluations, automatic and human, show that the systems succeed in improving the content, but are currently not capable of producing entirely correct Standard German.

Keywords
  • Machine translation
  • Low-resource language
  • Swiss German
  • Dialect translation
  • Deep learning
  • Neural machine translation
  • Human evaluation
  • Subtitles
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Citation (ISO format)
MUTAL, Jonathan David et al. Standard German Subtitling of Swiss German TV content: the PASSAGE Project. In: Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Marseille. Marseille, France : European Language Resources Association, 2022. p. 5063–5070.
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Additional URL for this publicationhttps://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.541
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