2023/05/26 by Md Mahfuz Ibn Alam, Sina Ahmadi, Alam, Md Mahfuz Ibn +3 · 3 citations
Computer Science · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Natural Language Processing Techniques
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2305.17267
openalex publication_date 2023/05/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Neural machine translation (NMT) systems exhibit limited robustness in handling source-side linguistic variations. Their performance tends to degrade when faced with even slight deviations in language usage, such as different domains or variations introduced by second-language speakers. It is intuitive to extend this observation to encompass dialectal variations as well, but the work allowing the community to evaluate MT systems on this dimension is limited. To alleviate this issue, we compile and release CODET, a contrastive dialectal benchmark encompassing 891 different variations from twelve different languages. We also quantitatively demonstrate the challenges large MT models face in effectively translating dialectal variants. All the data and code have been released.