Construction and Analysis of Word-level Time-aligned Simultaneous Interpretation Corpus
Takahiro Ono, Hitomi Tohyama, Shigeki Matsubara · 2008
In this paper, quantitative analyses of the delay in Japanese-to-English (J-E) and English-to-Japanese (E-J) interpretations are described.The Simultaneous Interpretation Database of Nagoya University (SIDB) was used for the analyses.Beginning time and end time of each word were provided to the corpus using HMM-based phoneme segmentation, and the time lag between the corresponding words was calculated as the word-level delay.Word-level delay was calculated for 3,722 pairs and 4,932 pairs of words for J-E and E-J interpretations, respectively.The analyses revealed that J-E interpretation have much larger delay than E-J interpretation and that the difference of word order between Japanese and English affect the degree of delay.