---
language:
- en
- de
- fr
- ru
multilingulality:
- multilingual
task_categories:
- translation
viewer: false
---

> [!NOTE]
> Dataset origin: https://live.european-language-grid.eu/catalogue/corpus/11744/

## Description
A multilingual (but non-parallel) corpus for multimodal machine translation and retrieval.
The image captions were extracted from Wikimedia Commons for English, German, French, and Russian.

More info on https://www.cl.uni-heidelberg.de/statnlpgroup/wikicaps/

## Citation
```
@inproceedings{schamoni2018,
  author = {Schamoni, Shigehiko and Hitschler, Julian and Riezler, Stefan},
  title = {A Dataset and Reranking Method for Multimodal MT of User-Generated Image Captions},
  journal = {Proceedings of the 13th biennial conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas},
  journal-abbrev = {AMTA},
  year = {2018},
  city = {Boston, MA},
  country = {USA},
  url = {http://www.cl.uni-heidelberg.de/~riezler/publications/papers/AMTA2018.1.pdf}
}
```