The WAW Corpus: The First Corpus of Interpreted Speeches and their Translations for English and Arabic

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)

Abstract

This article presents the WAW Corpus, an interpreting corpus for English/Arabic, which can be used for teaching interpreters, studying the characteristics of interpreters’ work, as well as to train machine translation systems. The corpus contains recordings of lectures and speeches from international conferences, their interpretations, the transcripts of the original speeches and of their interpretations, as well as human translations of both kinds of transcripts into the opposite language of the language pair. The article presents the corpus curation, statistics, assessment, as well as a case study of the corpus use.