WIT3 - Web Inventory of Transcribed and Translated Talks

Web Inventory of Transcribed and Translated Talks

Table of contents

▿ Latest version of XML files
of the TED Talks (April 2016)

▿ Releases

▿ Note on Transcripts/Translations

WIT³ - acronym for Web Inventory of Transcribed and Translated Talks - is a ready-to-use version for research purposes of the multilingual transcriptions of TED talks.
Since 2007, the TED Conference has been posting on its website all video recordings of its talks, English subtitles and their translations in more than 80 languages. In order to make this collection of talks more effectively usable by the research community, the original textual contents are redistributed here, together with MT benchmarks and processing tools.

For a detailed description of this corpus, read:

M. Cettolo, C. Girardi, and M. Federico. 2012. WIT³: Web Inventory of Transcribed and Translated Talks.
In Proc. of EAMT, pp. 261-268, Trento, Italy. pdf, bib.

Please, cite the paper if you use this corpus in your work.

▸ Latest version of XML files of the TED Talks (April 2016):

Talks in XML format (109 languages)
Tools

▸ Releases

TED Talks

2016-01: special release for the IWSLT 2016 evaluation campaign
2015-01: special release for the IWSLT 2015 evaluation campaign
- Training and development sets for the MT track
- Evaluation sets for the MT track
- References of the progressive test set (for 1 language pair)
- Linguistic preprocessors for Vietnamese
- Human evaluation data will be released at the end of the IWSLT 2016 Evaluation Campaign (Oct 7, 2016)
2014-01: special release for the IWSLT 2014 evaluation campaign
2013-01: special release for the IWSLT 2013 evaluation campaign
2012-03: special release for the TED task of the IWSLT 2012 evaluation campaign
2012-02 (Update: May 2012)
- Plain texts for MT (23x22 language pairs)
- Talks in XML format (71 languages)
- MT baseline results
- Tools
2012-01 (Experiments of the above mentioned EAMT 2012 paper)
- Plain texts for MT (23x22 language pairs)
- Talks in XML format (79 languages)
- MT baseline results
- Tools
2011-01 (IWSLT 2011 evaluation campaign)
- Plain texts for MT (3 language pairs)
- MT baseline results
- Human evaluation data

▸ Note on Transcripts/Translations

TED transcripts and translations were generated following these guidelines: How to Tackle a Transcript and How to Tackle a Translation.
WIT³ redistributes original TED texts in their original format, therefore infos included in TED guidelines are mostly valid also for WIT³ texts. An important difference regards texts of development and evaluation sets where metadata, for example those regarding sound information, are removed.

▸ Terms of Use

TED makes its collection of video recordings and transcripts of talks available under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license (look here). WIT³ acknowledges the authorship of TED talks (BY condition) and does not redistribute transcripts for commercial purposes (NC). As regards the integrity of the work (ND), WIT³ only changes the format of the container, while preserving the original contents. WIT³ aims to support research on human language processing as well as the diffusion of TED Talks!

▸ Acknowledgments

The work was partially supported by the EU-BRIDGE and CRACKER projects, funded by the European Commission.

▸ Related resources

The NAIST-NTT TED Talk Treebank

▸ Contact person

Mauro Cettolo (cettolo

fbk.eu)

▸ Author

Christian Girardi