Translation Guidelines, data format and annotation specifications:

Translation Guidelines (sent to translation agencies):

· Chinese->English translation guideline for the first set of data in 2001

· Chinese->English translation guideline for the second set of data in 2001

· Instructions for the 2002 Chinese->English translation evaluation data

· Chinese->English translation guidelines for 2003 training and eval data

· Arabic-> English translation guidelines for 2002 evaluation data

· Arabic-> English translation guidelines for 2003 training and eval data

Final Data Format (of published corpora):

· Final Data Format for LDC Multiple Translation Chinese Corpora

· Final Data Format for LDC Multiple Translation Arabic Corpora

Specifications for human assessment of translation quality:

· Specification for human assessment of translation quality

NIST 2003 MT Evaluation Resources:

Allowable training data for the separate evaluation conditions. Registered participants should contact the LDC to acquire this data:

Small Data Condition
Chinese	Arabic
English Translation of Chinese Treebank	Not Applicable
The 10k-word dictionary from CMU (S.Vogel)

Large Data Condition
Chinese		Arabic
LDC catalog #	Title	LDC catalog #	Title
LDC2003E14	FBIS data
LDC2000T47	Hong Kong Laws Parallel Text
LDC2002E16	Hong Kong News Parallel Text, sentence-aligned	LDC2003T07	Arabic Treebank Part 1 10k word English Translation
LDC2000T46	Hong Kong News Parallel Text -	LDC2002E15	UN Arabic English parallel Text
LDC2000T50	Hong Kong Hansard Parallel Text, aligned at the document level	LDC2002E48	Ummah Arabic English Parallel News Text
LDC2002E19	Hong Kong Hansard Parallel Text, aligned at the sentence level	LDC2002L49	Buckwalter Arabic Morphological Analyzer Version 1.0
LDC2002E17	English Translation of Chinese Treebank	LDC2003T06	Arabic Treebank Part 1 v2.0
LDC2002E18	Xinhua Chinese-English Parallel News Text Version 1.0 beta 2	LDC2002E54	Multiple Translation Arabic Corpus NIST June 2002 MT evaluation data
LDC2003E11	UN Chinese-English Parallel Text Version 1.0 beta	LDC2003E05	Arabic News Translation Corpus Part 1
LDC2002L27	Chinese English Translation Lexicon version 3.0	LDC2003E09	Arabic News Translation Corpus Part 2
LDC2002E58	Sinorama Chinese-English Parallel Text
LDC2002T01	Multiple-Translation Chinese Corpus
LDC2002E53	Multiple Translation Chinese Corpus part 2: NIST June 2002 MT evaluation data
LDC2003E01	Chinese-English Name Entity Lists version 1.0 beta
LDC2002E04	Multiple Translation Chinese Corpus Part 3
LDC2001T11	Chinese Treebank 2.0
LDC2003E06	Chinese Treebank 3.0
LDC2003E07	Chinese Treebank English Parallel Corpus
LDC2003E08	Chinese News Translation Corpus Part 1

Unlimited Training Condition
Chinese	Arabic
All publicly available data up to Jan. 1st, 2003	All publicly available data up to Jan 1st, 2003

Created: 11-Jun-2002

Last updated: 02-May-2003