%0 Conference Proceedings %T Toward a Comparable Corpus of Latvian, Russian and English Tweets %A Milajevs, Dmitrijs %Y Sharoff, Serge %Y Zweigenbaum, Pierre %Y Rapp, Reinhard %S Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora %D 2017 %8 August %I Association for Computational Linguistics %C Vancouver, Canada %F milajevs-2017-toward %X Twitter has become a rich source for linguistic data. Here, a possibility of building a trilingual Latvian-Russian-English corpus of tweets from Riga, Latvia is investigated. Such a corpus, once constructed, might be of great use for multiple purposes including training machine translation models, examining cross-lingual phenomena and studying the population of Riga. This pilot study shows that it is feasible to build such a resource by collecting and analysing a pilot corpus, which is made publicly available and can be used to construct a large comparable corpus. %R 10.18653/v1/W17-2505 %U https://aclanthology.org/W17-2505 %U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W17-2505 %P 26-30