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Parallel Global Voices: a Collection of Multilingual Corpora with Citizen Media Stories

Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016)

DOI:10.63317/58j4cgmrardm

Abstract

We present a new collection of multilingual corpora automatically created from the content available in the Global Voices websites, where volunteers have been posting and translating citizen media stories since 2004. We describe how we crawled and processed this content to generate parallel resources comprising 302.6K document pairs and 8.36M segment alignments in 756 language pairs. For some language pairs, the segment alignments in this resource are the first open examples of their kind. In an initial use of this resource, we discuss how a set of document pair detection algorithms performs on the Greek-English corpus.

Details

Paper ID
lrec2016-main-144
Pages
pp. 900-905
BibKey
prokopidis-etal-2016-parallel
Editor
N/A
Publisher
European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
ISSN
2522-2686
ISBN
978-2-9517408-9-1
Conference
Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
Location
Portorož, Slovenia
Date
23 May 2016 28 May 2016

Authors

  • PP

    Prokopis Prokopidis

  • VP

    Vassilis Papavassiliou

  • SP

    Stelios Piperidis

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