Comparing two acquisition systems for automatically building an English—Croatian parallel corpus from multilingual websites

Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Filip Klubička, Nikola Ljubešić, Sergio Ortiz-Rojas, Vassilis Papavassiliou, Prokopis Prokopidis


Abstract
In this paper we compare two tools for automatically harvesting bitexts from multilingual websites: bitextor and ILSP-FC. We used both tools for crawling 21 multilingual websites from the tourism domain to build a domain-specific English―Croatian parallel corpus. Different settings were tried for both tools and 10,662 unique document pairs were obtained. A sample of about 10% of them was manually examined and the success rate was computed on the collection of pairs of documents detected by each setting. We compare the performance of the settings and the amount of different corpora detected by each setting. In addition, we describe the resource obtained, both by the settings and through the human evaluation, which has been released as a high-quality parallel corpus.
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L14-1437
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Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
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May
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2014
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Reykjavik, Iceland
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, 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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1252–1258
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Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Filip Klubička, Nikola Ljubešić, Sergio Ortiz-Rojas, Vassilis Papavassiliou, and Prokopis Prokopidis. 2014. Comparing two acquisition systems for automatically building an English—Croatian parallel corpus from multilingual websites. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 1252–1258, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Comparing two acquisition systems for automatically building an English—Croatian parallel corpus from multilingual websites (Esplà-Gomis et al., LREC 2014)
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