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ViDia2Std: A Parallel Corpus and Methods for Low-Resource Vietnamese Dialect-to-Standard Translation

Khoa Anh Ta, Nguyen Van Dinh, Kiet Van Nguyen · Mar 10, 2026 · Citations: 0

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Abstract

Vietnamese exhibits extensive dialectal variation, posing challenges for NLP systems trained predominantly on standard Vietnamese. Such systems often underperform on dialectal inputs, especially from underrepresented Central and Southern regions. Previous work on dialect normalization has focused narrowly on Central-to-Northern dialect transfer using synthetic data and limited dialectal diversity. These efforts exclude Southern varieties and intra-regional variants within the North. We introduce ViDia2Std, the first manually annotated parallel corpus for dialect-to-standard Vietnamese translation covering all 63 provinces. Unlike prior datasets, ViDia2Std includes diverse dialects from Central, Southern, and non-standard Northern regions often absent from existing resources, making it the most dialectally inclusive corpus to date. The dataset consists of over 13,000 sentence pairs sourced from real-world Facebook comments and annotated by native speakers across all three dialect regions. To assess annotation consistency, we define a semantic mapping agreement metric that accounts for synonymous standard mappings across annotators. Based on this criterion, we report agreement rates of 86% (North), 82% (Central), and 85% (South). We benchmark several sequence-to-sequence models on ViDia2Std. mBART-large-50 achieves the best results (BLEU 0.8166, ROUGE-L 0.9384, METEOR 0.8925), while ViT5-base offers competitive performance with fewer parameters. ViDia2Std demonstrates that dialect normalization substantially improves downstream tasks, highlighting the need for dialect-aware resources in building robust Vietnamese NLP systems.

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Evidence snippet: Vietnamese exhibits extensive dialectal variation, posing challenges for NLP systems trained predominantly on standard Vietnamese.

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We introduce ViDia2Std, the first manually annotated parallel corpus for dialect-to-standard Vietnamese translation covering all 63 provinces. HFEPX signals include Automatic Metrics with confidence 0.35. Updated from current HFEPX corpus.

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  • We introduce ViDia2Std, the first manually annotated parallel corpus for dialect-to-standard Vietnamese translation covering all 63 provinces.
  • To assess annotation consistency, we define a semantic mapping agreement metric that accounts for synonymous standard mappings across annotators.

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  • We introduce ViDia2Std, the first manually annotated parallel corpus for dialect-to-standard Vietnamese translation covering all 63 provinces.
  • To assess annotation consistency, we define a semantic mapping agreement metric that accounts for synonymous standard mappings across annotators.
  • We benchmark several sequence-to-sequence models on ViDia2Std.

Why It Matters For Eval

  • To assess annotation consistency, we define a semantic mapping agreement metric that accounts for synonymous standard mappings across annotators.
  • We benchmark several sequence-to-sequence models on ViDia2Std.

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