TY - GEN
T1 - Picard understanding Darmok
T2 - 3rd Workshop on Figurative Language Processing, FigLang 2022, as part of EMNLP 2022
AU - Jansen, Peter A.
AU - Boyd-Graber, Jordan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Tamarian, a fictional language introduced in the Star Trek episode Darmok, communicates meaning through utterances of metaphorical references, such as “Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra” instead of “We should work together.” This work assembles a Tamarian-English dictionary of utterances from the original episode and several follow-on novels, and uses this to construct a parallel corpus of 456 English-Tamarian utterances. A machine translation system based on a large language model (T5) is trained using this parallel corpus, and is shown to produce an accuracy of 76% when translating from English to Tamarian on known utterances.
AB - Tamarian, a fictional language introduced in the Star Trek episode Darmok, communicates meaning through utterances of metaphorical references, such as “Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra” instead of “We should work together.” This work assembles a Tamarian-English dictionary of utterances from the original episode and several follow-on novels, and uses this to construct a parallel corpus of 456 English-Tamarian utterances. A machine translation system based on a large language model (T5) is trained using this parallel corpus, and is shown to produce an accuracy of 76% when translating from English to Tamarian on known utterances.
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U2 - 10.18653/v1/2022.flp-1.5
DO - 10.18653/v1/2022.flp-1.5
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85153265977
T3 - FLP 2022 - 3rd Workshop on Figurative Language Processing, Proceedings of the Workshop
SP - 34
EP - 38
BT - FLP 2022 - 3rd Workshop on Figurative Language Processing, Proceedings of the Workshop
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Y2 - 8 December 2022
ER -