Language Portability for Dialogue Systems: Translating a Question-Answering System from English into Tamil
Satheesh Ravi, Ron Artstein · 2016
A training and test set for a dialogue system in the form of linked questions and responses is translated from English into Tamil.Accuracy of identifying an appropriate response in Tamil is 79%, compared to the English accuracy of 89%, suggesting that translation can be useful to start up a dialogue system.Machine translation of Tamil inputs into English also results in 79% accuracy.However, machine translation of the English training data into Tamil results in a drop in accuracy to 54% when tested on manually authored Tamil, indicating that there is still a large gap before machine translated dialogue systems can interact with human users.