[Corpora-List] Computer books: parallel corpus?

[Alexander Yeh]

Darren Cook wrote:
> I just discovered Free Programming Books:
>
> https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/free-programming-books.md#professional-development
>
> and then in 13 other languages:
>    https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books#in-other-speaking-languages
>
> For the other languages it looks like quite a few are translations of
> English titles. Has anyone already done the work to match them up?
>
> (And if so, what about the next step of splitting up the PDFs, and then
> matching up chapters, paragraphs, or even sentences?)

My small bit: My experience with extracting text from PDFs is that it is 
a non-trivial task to do a good job on this task.

>
> Darren
>
> P.S. There is quite a lot of other potential research on this body of
> books, even just sticking to one language. E.g. automatic glossary
> extraction. E.g. comparison of metrics of sentence length or complexity
> or word variety with other genre of books. (Do computer book authors
> simplify their language, because the topic is already complicated
> enough?) (How does language in computer books differ from language in
> computer science papers?)
> E.g. can we take two or three books on the same topic and automatically
> identify differences in them (which might point to content errors)?
>
>



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