zNLP: Identifying Parallel Sentences in Chinese-English Comparable Corpora

Zheng Zhang, Pierre Zweigenbaum


Abstract
This paper describes the zNLP system for the BUCC 2017 shared task. Our system identifies parallel sentence pairs in Chinese-English comparable corpora by translating word-by-word Chinese sentences into English, using the search engine Solr to select near-parallel sentences and then by using an SVM classifier to identify true parallel sentences from the previous results. It obtains an F1-score of 45% (resp. 32%) on the test (training) set.
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W17-2510
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Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora
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August
Year:
2017
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Vancouver, Canada
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Serge Sharoff, Pierre Zweigenbaum, Reinhard Rapp
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BUCC
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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51–55
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https://aclanthology.org/W17-2510
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W17-2510
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Zheng Zhang and Pierre Zweigenbaum. 2017. zNLP: Identifying Parallel Sentences in Chinese-English Comparable Corpora. In Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora, pages 51–55, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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zNLP: Identifying Parallel Sentences in Chinese-English Comparable Corpora (Zhang & Zweigenbaum, BUCC 2017)
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