Word-aligned parallel text : a new resource for contrastive language studies

Martin Volk; Anne Göhring; Stéphanie  Lehner; Annette Rios; Rico Sennrich; Heli Uibo

Word-aligned parallel text : a new resource for contrastive language studies

Martin Volk, Anne Göhring, Stéphanie Lehner, Annette Rios, Rico Sennrich, Heli Uibo

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This paper describes the opportunities that arise from automatic word alignment for bilingual concordances and contrastive language studies. We introduce our parallel corpus of Alpine texts in French and German and our web-based alignment search system. We explain how we have reduced the number of erroneous alignments in the output by distinguishing between dominant and miscellaneous translations. We are currently in the process of extending the system to a new language pair Spanish-Quechua. This poses special problems because of the scarcity of resources for Quechua but also because of the wide typological gap between the languages.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Supporting Digital Humanities, Conference 2011
Place of Publication	Copenhagen, Denmark
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2011
Event	Supporting Digital Humanities, Conference 2011 - Copenhagen, Denmark Duration: 17 Nov 2011 → 18 Nov 2011

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Conference	Supporting Digital Humanities, Conference 2011
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Copenhagen
Period	17/11/11 → 18/11/11

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