[Corpora-List] New book: Building and Using Comparable Corpora

[Serge Sharoff]

Dear all,

I'm happy to announce a new book.  Please see below.

Best wishes,
Serge

Building and Using Comparable Corpora
Sharoff, S.; Rapp, R.; Zweigenbaum, P.; Fung, P. (Eds.)
2013, XII, 335 p. 70 illus., 14 illus. in color.

http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-3-642-20127-1

The 1990s saw a paradigm change in the use of corpus-driven methods in 
NLP.  In the field of multilingual NLP (such as machine translation and 
terminology mining) this implied the use of parallel corpora.  However, 
parallel resources are relatively scarce: many more texts are produced 
daily by native speakers of any given language than translated.  This 
situation resulted in a natural drive towards the use of comparable 
corpora, i.e. non-parallel texts in the same domain or genre, with a 
large number of research papers published on the topic.  Nevertheless, 
this research direction has not produced a single authoritative source 
suitable for researchers and students coming to the field.

The current volume provides such a reference source, identifying the 
state of the art in the field as well as future trends.  The book is 
intended for specialists and students in natural language processing, 
machine translation and computer-assisted translation.

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