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| Title | Babylon Parallel Text Builder: Gathering Parallel Texts for Low-Density Languages |
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| Authors | Michael Mohler and Rada Mihalcea |
| Abstract | This paper describes Babylon, a system that attempts to overcome the shortage of parallel texts in low-density languages by supplementing existing parallel texts with texts gathered automatically from the Web. In addition to the identification of entire Web pages, we also propose a new feature specifically designed to find parallel text chunks within a single document. Experiments carried out on the Quechua-Spanish language pair show that the system is successful in automatically identifying a significant amount of parallel texts on the Web. Evaluations of a machine translation system trained on this corpus indicate that the Web-gathered parallel texts can supplement manually compiled parallel texts and perform significantly better than the manually compiled texts when tested on other Web-gathered data. |
| Language | Multiple languages |
| Topics | Endangered languages, LR Infrastructures and Architectures, Multilinguality |
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Babylon Parallel Text Builder: Gathering Parallel Texts for Low-Density Languages |
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Babylon Parallel Text Builder: Gathering Parallel Texts for Low-Density Languages |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{MOHLER08.313, author = {Michael Mohler and Rada Mihalcea}, title = {Babylon Parallel Text Builder: Gathering Parallel Texts for Low-Density Languages}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)}, year = {2008}, month = {may}, date = {28-30}, address = {Marrakech, Morocco}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-4-0}, note = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/}, language = {english} } |