[Corpora-List] Seeking bilingual corpora, colloquial register, gaming

[Joerg Tiedemann]

Maybe translated movie subtitles would fit your needs:
http://opus.lingfil.uu.se/OpenSubtitles_v2.php
There is plenty of dialogues, swear words, abbreviations and even
spelling mistakes (but mostly coming from OCR) in the data collection.

Jörg


On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Alex Juan <alhelsal at posgrado.upv.es> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am looking for bilingual/multilingual corpora that could be classified as
> UGC, that is, user-generated content. This ranges from (but may not be
> limited to) chat conversations, support forum conversations, phone/sms/email
> transcripts, etc.
>
> As you know, the language here is not always "standard", and this content
> may be rich not only in abbreviations but also contain spelling mistakes,
> and even figurative language and swearwords. If there are also collections
> or repositories of keywords (aka "seed" words) used in similar studies, that
> would also be of help. In the first instance, the languages of interest are
> German and English, with the items of the corpora or repositories aligned
> with one another.
>
> I am attempting to build an MT prototype of DE<>EN for the gaming domain.
>
> Does anyone know of such a corpus? Any information/orientation will be
> appreciated (even if it comes from specialists from other HLT fields, such
> as sentiment analysis or semantic web).
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Alex Juan
>
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