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Hauptverfasser: Vasselli, Justin, Kardinata, Eunike Andriani, Sakai, Yusuke, Watanabe, Taro
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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author Vasselli, Justin
Kardinata, Eunike Andriani
Sakai, Yusuke
Watanabe, Taro
author_facet Vasselli, Justin
Kardinata, Eunike Andriani
Sakai, Yusuke
Watanabe, Taro
contents Non-English dialogue datasets are scarce, and models are often trained or evaluated on translations of English-language dialogues, an approach which can introduce artifacts that reduce their naturalness and cultural appropriateness. This work proposes Dialogue Act Script (DAS), a structured framework for encoding, localizing, and generating multilingual dialogues from abstract intent representations. Rather than translating dialogue utterances directly, DAS enables the generation of new dialogues in the target language that are culturally and contextually appropriate. By using structured dialogue act representations, DAS supports flexible localization across languages, mitigating translationese and enabling more fluent, naturalistic conversations. Human evaluations across Italian, German, and Chinese show that DAS-generated dialogues consistently outperform those produced by both machine and human translators on measures of cultural relevance, coherence, and situational appropriateness.
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spellingShingle Multilingual Dialogue Generation and Localization with Dialogue Act Scripting
Vasselli, Justin
Kardinata, Eunike Andriani
Sakai, Yusuke
Watanabe, Taro
Computation and Language
Non-English dialogue datasets are scarce, and models are often trained or evaluated on translations of English-language dialogues, an approach which can introduce artifacts that reduce their naturalness and cultural appropriateness. This work proposes Dialogue Act Script (DAS), a structured framework for encoding, localizing, and generating multilingual dialogues from abstract intent representations. Rather than translating dialogue utterances directly, DAS enables the generation of new dialogues in the target language that are culturally and contextually appropriate. By using structured dialogue act representations, DAS supports flexible localization across languages, mitigating translationese and enabling more fluent, naturalistic conversations. Human evaluations across Italian, German, and Chinese show that DAS-generated dialogues consistently outperform those produced by both machine and human translators on measures of cultural relevance, coherence, and situational appropriateness.
title Multilingual Dialogue Generation and Localization with Dialogue Act Scripting
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22086