Translation of New Named Entities from English to Chinese
Zizheng Zhang, Tosho Hirasawa, Wei Houjing, Masahiro Kaneko, Mamoru Komachi · 2020
New things are being created and new words are constantly being added to languages worldwide.However, it is not practical to translate them all manually into a new foreign language.When translating from an alphabetic language such as English to Chinese, appropriate Chinese characters must be assigned, which is particularly costly compared to other language pairs.Therefore, we propose a task of generating and evaluating new translations from English to Chinese focusing on named entities.We defined three criteria for human evaluation-fluency, adequacy of pronunciation, and adequacy of meaning-and constructed evaluation data based on these definitions.In addition, we built a baseline system and analyzed the output of the system.