Building a multilingual parallel corpus for human users

Alexandr Rosen, Martin Vavřín


Abstract
We present the architecture and the current state of InterCorp, a multilingual parallel corpus centered around Czech, intended primarily for human users and consisting of written texts with a focus on fiction. Following an outline of its recent development and a comparison with some other multilingual parallel corpora we give an overview of the data collection procedure that covers text selection criteria, data format, conversion, alignment, lemmatization and tagging. Finally, we show a sample query using the web-based search interface and discuss challenges and prospects of the project.
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L12-1058
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
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May
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2012
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Istanbul, Turkey
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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2447–2452
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/200_Paper.pdf
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Alexandr Rosen and Martin Vavřín. 2012. Building a multilingual parallel corpus for human users. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 2447–2452, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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