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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>This is an update regarding the two freely
available multilingual resources <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>JRC-Acquis</span></b>
and <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>DGT Translation Memory</span></b>
(DGT-TM), distributed by the European Commission’s <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Joint Research Centre</span></i> (JRC):<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>(1)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><span
dir=LTR><font color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:navy'>For
version 3.0 of the multilingual parallel corpus <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>JRC-Acquis</span></b> (22 languages, 231 language pairs; 1 Billion words),
bilingual alignments have now also been produced with the alignment tool
HunAlign. Until recently, only Vanilla alignments were available. This
additional resource will allow comparison and benchmarking of alignment
software for a wide variety of language pairs, and users can choose the
alignments that suit them better.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>(2)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><span
dir=LTR><font color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Following
frequent user requests, the tool to extract bilingual translation memories for
all 231 <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>DGT-TM</span></b> language pairs is
now available as Java byte code so that the extraction tool can be used on operating
systems other than Windows. <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>For more information on both resources,
see <a href="http://langtech.jrc.it/JRC-Acquis.html">http://langtech.jrc.it/JRC-Acquis.html</a>
and <a href="http://langtech.jrc.it/DGT-TM.html">http://langtech.jrc.it/DGT-TM.html</a>
.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><font size=1 color=gray
face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:gray;font-weight:bold'>Ralf Steinberger</span></font></b><font size=1
color=gray face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:gray'> (</span></font><font size=1 color=gray face="Comic Sans MS"><span
lang=DE style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:gray'><a
href="mailto:Ralf.Steinberger@jrc.it" title="mailto:Ralf.Steinberger@jrc.it"><font
color=gray><span lang=EN-GB style='color:gray'>Ralf.Steinberger@jrc.it</span></font></a></span></font><font
size=1 color=gray face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:
"Comic Sans MS";color:gray'>) <br>
European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC)<br>
IPSC - SeS – Web Technology and Intelligence <br>
URL: Applications: <a href="http://press.jrc.it/overview.html">http://press.jrc.it/overview.html</a></span></font><font
size=1 color=gray face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:
"Comic Sans MS";color:gray'><br>
</span></font><font size=1 color=gray face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:gray'>URL:
The science behind them: </span></font><font size=1 color=gray
face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:gray'><a href="http://langtech.jrc.it/"
title="http://langtech.jrc.it/
http://www.jrc.it/langtech"><font size=1
color=gray><span style='font-size:7.5pt;color:gray'>http://langtech.jrc.it</span></font></a></span></font><font
size=1 color=gray face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:
"Comic Sans MS";color:gray'>.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><u><font size=1 color=maroon face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold'>JRC-Acquis
Multilingual Parallel Corpus</span></font></u></b><font size=1 color=maroon
face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon'>
(Version 3)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:31.35pt;text-indent:-14.15pt'><font
size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font><b><font
size=1 color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:maroon;font-weight:bold'>Freely available</span></font></b><font size=1
color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'> for research purposes.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:31.35pt;text-indent:-14.15pt'><font
size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font><b><font
size=1 color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:maroon;font-weight:bold'>22 languages</span></font></b><font size=1
color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'>: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish,
Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Maltese,
Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene and Swedish.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:31.35pt;text-indent:-14.15pt'><font
size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font><font
size=1 color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'>Altogether<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> over 1 Billion words</span></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:31.35pt;text-indent:-14.15pt'><font
size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font><font
size=1 color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'>Sentence <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>alignment for 231
language pairs</span></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:31.35pt;text-indent:-14.15pt'><font
size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font><font
size=1 color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'>For more information and <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>download</span></b>,
see <a href="http://langtech.jrc.it/JRC-Acquis.html"
title="http://langtech.jrc.it/JRC-Acquis.html"><font color=purple><span
style='color:purple'>http://langtech.jrc.it/JRC-Acquis.html</span></font></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#993366" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#993366'> </span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><u><font size=1 color=maroon face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold'>DGT-Translation
Memory</span></font></u></b><font size=1 color=maroon face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:31.35pt;text-indent:-14.15pt'><font
size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font><b><font
size=1 color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:maroon;font-weight:bold'>Freely available</span></font></b><font size=1
color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'> for research purposes.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:31.35pt;text-indent:-14.15pt'><font
size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font><font
size=1 color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'>Aligned translation units for<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>
231 language pairs</span></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:31.35pt;text-indent:-14.15pt'><font
size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font><font
size=1 color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'>Alignment<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> manually verified</span></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:31.35pt;text-indent:-14.15pt'><font
size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font><font
size=1 color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'>For more information and <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>download</span></b>,
see <a href="http://langtech.jrc.it/DGT-TM.html">http://langtech.jrc.it/DGT-TM.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#993366" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#993366'> </span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon'>The <b><u><span style='font-weight:bold'>JRC’s
Language Technology group</span></u></b> specialises in the development of
highly multilingual text analysis tools and in cross-lingual applications. Many
applications are accessible online, e.g.:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0cm;text-indent:-14.15pt'><font size=2
face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font><font
size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer/"
title="http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer/"><font color=purple><span
style='color:purple'>NewsExplorer</span></font></a><font color=maroon><span
style='color:maroon'>: multilingual news aggregation and analysis (19
languages); allows to navigate the news over time and across languages; trend
analysis; collects information about people from the news; social network
detection.</span></font><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0cm;text-indent:-14.15pt'><font size=2
face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font><font
size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://press.jrc.it/NewsBrief/" title="http://press.jrc.it/"><font
color=purple><span style='color:purple'>NewsBrief</span></font></a><font
color=maroon><span style='color:maroon'>: breaking news detection and display
of the very latest thematic news from around the world; email alerting (22 to 43
languages).</span></font><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0cm;text-indent:-14.15pt'><font size=2
face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font><font
size=1 color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'><a href="http://medusa.jrc.it/" title="http://medusa.jrc.it/"><font
color=purple><span style='color:purple'>MedISys</span></font></a> Medical
Information System: latest health-related news from around the world according
to themes and diseases; early warning; email notification; trend graphs (22 to 43
languages).</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0cm;text-indent:-14.15pt'><font size=2
color=black face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;
color:black'>·</span></font><font size=1 color=black><span
style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span></font><font
size=1 color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'><a href="http://emm-labs.jrc.it/" target="_blank">EMM-Labs</a>: Latest
developments; social networks; live people-in-the-news; country and theme fact
sheets; maps showing violent events world-wide.</span></font><font size=1
face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:gray;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
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