Creating Sentence-Aligned Parallel Text Corpora from a Large Archive of Potential Parallel Text using BITS and Champollion

Parallel text is one of the most valuable resources for development of statistical machine translation systems and other NLP applications. The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) has supported research on statistical machine translations and other NLP applications by creating and distributing a large amount of parallel text resources for the research communities. However, manual translations are very costly, and the number of known providers that offer complete parallel text is limited. This paper presents a cost effective approach to identify parallel document pairs from sources that provide potential parallel text

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Kazuaki Maeda, Xiaoyi Ma, Stephanie Strassel
• Keywords: Education, LREC 2008, Parallel Text, Parallel Text Resources, Statistical Machine Translations