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license: cc-by-nc-4.0
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language:
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pretty_name: Polish Interpreting Corpus
task_categories:
- automatic-speech-recognition
- translation
---

# Polish Interpreting Corpus

The Polish Interpreting Corpus (PINC) is a hand-verified parallel speech corpus derived from the European Parliament recordings. The corpus was automatically pre-processed and subsequently
manually verified to correct the transcription, word-level speech-to-text alignment and sentence-level interlingual alignment. The audio quality is decent and the annotation is fairly accurate.

The corpus contains a set of 520 recordings of Polish-English speeches totalling 22 hours 58 minutes 37.92 seconds. The speeches were downloaded from the European Parliament website in the form of multi-track video files.
An audio tracks containing original (EN/PL) speech and a translation in the parallel (also EN/PL) translation made by an official interpreter was extracted from the video file.
Official stenographs were then aligned automatically to the audio and manually corrected by a group of reserachers. Finally, each sentence was then aligned between languages
followed by the alignment of specific words within those sentences. This release of the corpus doesn't contain any word-level alignments. Also, this release contains only 1:1
alignments of text chunks. Normally, sentence-level alignment requires an M:N mapping, but multiple sentences are grouped together to achieve 1:1 mapping instead.

The basic unit of this corpus is a paragraph (ie. group of sentences). Each paragraph contains the following meta-data:
- **id** - recording identifier as used in the original corpus
- **paragraph** - index of the paragraph in the recording    
- **parlink** - index of the paragraph of the parallel recording (source or translation) 
- **start** - start offset in the original recording of the audio (before it was segmented for this version)
- **end** - end offset, just like above
- **text** - ortohgraphic transcription of the audio
- **times** - array of time offsets (start/end) for individual (space-delimited) words from the transcription above
- **source** - if true this segment is the source, if false it is the translation
- **lang** - language of this segment
- **retour** -  if the interpreter is working into his/her non-native language
- **speaker** - name of the speaker (for source segments) or unique identifier of the interpreter (for translations)    
- **gender** - male of female gender of the speaker
- **topic** - general topic of the recording
- **affiliation** - political affiliation of the source speaker
- **delivery** - type of speech delivery (eg. read or impormptu speech)
- **audio** - audio segment

The main use of this corpus was to facilitate research on PL-EN interpreting, but the data should also be useful for translation and speech technology development.

PINC was created as part of the project entitled: Extreme language control: activation and inhibition as bilingual control mechanisms in conference interpreting (research grant no. 2018/30/E/HS2/00035 funded by the Polish National Science Centre, 2019-2024).

Please cite the following work when using PINC:

```
@article{chmiel2023lexical,
  title={Lexical frequency modulates current cognitive load, but triggers no spillover effect in interpreting},
  author={Chmiel, Agnieszka and Janikowski, Przemys{\l}aw and Kor{\v{z}}inek, Danijel and Lijewska, Agnieszka and Kajzer-Wietrzny, Marta and Jakubowski, Dariusz and Plevoets, Koen},
  journal={Perspectives},
  pages={1--19},
  year={2023},
  publisher={Taylor \& Francis}
}
```

For more information please contact the Principal Investigator [dr hab. Agnieszka Chmiel](https://anglistyka.amu.edu.pl/strona-glowna/struktura/zaklad-studiow-nad-przekladem/agnieszka-chmiel)