A High-Quality and Large-Scale Dataset for English-Vietnamese Speech Translation

In this paper, we introduce a high-quality and large-scale benchmark dataset for English-Vietnamese speech translation with 508 audio hours, consisting of 331K triplets of (sentence-lengthed audio, English source transcript sentence, Vietnamese target subtitle sentence). We also conduct empirical experiments using strong baselines and find that the traditional "Cascaded" approach still outperforms the modern "End-to-End" approach. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first large-scale English-Vietnamese speech translation study. We hope both our publicly available dataset and study can serve as a starting point for future research and applications on English-Vietnamese speech translation. Our dataset is available at https://github.com/VinAIResearch/PhoST

PhoMT: A High-Quality and Large-Scale Benchmark Dataset for Vietnamese-English Machine Translation

We introduce a high-quality and large-scale Vietnamese-English parallel dataset of 3.02M sentence pairs, which is 2.9M pairs larger than the benchmark Vietnamese-English machine translation corpus IWSLT15. We conduct experiments comparing strong neural baselines and well-known automatic translation engines on our dataset and find that in both automatic and human evaluations: the best performance is obtained by fine-tuning the pre-trained sequence-to-sequence denoising auto-encoder mBART. To our best knowledge, this is the first large-scale Vietnamese-English machine translation study. We hope our publicly available dataset and study can serve as a starting point for future research and applications on Vietnamese-English machine translation.

BARTpho: Pre-trained Sequence-to-Sequence Models for Vietnamese

We present BARTpho with two versions -- BARTpho_word and BARTpho_syllable -- the first public large-scale monolingual sequence-to-sequence models pre-trained for Vietnamese. Our BARTpho uses the "large" architecture and pre-training scheme of the sequence-to-sequence denoising model BART, thus especially suitable for generative NLP tasks. Experiments on a downstream task of Vietnamese text summarization show that in both automatic and human evaluations, our BARTpho outperforms the strong baseline mBART and improves the state-of-the-art. We release BARTpho to facilitate future research and applications of generative Vietnamese NLP tasks. Our BARTpho models are available at: https://github.com/VinAIResearch/BARTpho