CzEng 0.7: Parallel Corpus with Community-Supplied Translations

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008)

Abstract

This paper describes CzEng 0.7, a new release of Czech-English parallel corpus freely available for research and educational purposes. We provide basic statistics of the corpus and focus on data produced by a community of volunteers. Anonymous contributors manually correct the output of a machine translation (MT) system, generating on average 2000 sentences a month, 70% of which are indeed correct translations. We compare the utility of community-supplied and of professionally translated training data for a baseline English-to-Czech MT system.