  In speech communication, how something is said (paralinguistic information)
is as crucial as what is said (linguistic information). As a type of
paralinguistic information, English speech uses sentence stress, the heaviest
prominence within a sentence, to convey emphasis. While different placements of
sentence stress communicate different emphatic implications, current speech
translation systems return the same translations if the utterances are
linguistically identical, losing paralinguistic information. Concentrating on
focus, a type of emphasis, we propose mapping paralinguistic information into
the linguistic domain within the source language using lexical and grammatical
devices. This method enables us to translate the paraphrased text
representations instead of the transcription of the original speech and obtain
translations that preserve paralinguistic information. As a first step, we
present the collection of an English corpus containing speech that differed in
the placement of focus along with the corresponding text, which was designed to
reflect the implied meaning of the speech. Also, analyses of our corpus
demonstrated that mapping of focus from the paralinguistic domain into the
linguistic domain involved various lexical and grammatical methods. The data
and insights from our analysis will further advance research into
paralinguistic translation. The corpus will be published via LDC and our
website.
