Corpora: Parallel corpus

[Philip Resnik]

Yuliya Katsnelson asked:
>   >I am looking for a parallel corpus (news, etc.) in English and
>   >optimally, Eastern European languages.

Mike Maxwell Mike_Maxwell at sil.org replied:
>   For nearly every written language, there is at least one parallel
>   corpus: the Bible (or at least the New Testament).  There are
>   obvious shortcomings with such a source (the alignment is at the
>   verse level, which may be too broad for some purposes; much of the
>   vocabulary is likely to be in semantic domains not of wider
>   interest; there are issues of translation style; the corpus may be
>   too small; etc.).  But it's there, and in many cases should be
>   available in electronic form, perhaps even on the web.

At the University of Maryland we've done some work on systematizing
the Bible as a parallel corpus using the Corpus Encoding Standard
(CES), as well as investigating the properties of the text from a
computational linguistics perspective.  See the Web page at
http://umiacs.umd.edu/~resnik/parallel/ for information and
references.

  Philip

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