[Corpora-List] Seeking for a free comparable corpus

[Darren Cook]

> I'm working on Cross Language Information Retrieval based on
> comparable corpora. In order to test my approach, I need a free
> comparable corpus between English language and an European language.

I was just trying to understand the difference between "parallel corpus"
and "comparable corpus". Am I correct in thinking that if an article is
translated (by a professional human translator, or a machine) from one
language to another, such that there is a sentence-level correspondence,
then it is a parallel corpus. Whereas a comparable corpus is one where
the two articles were written about the same subject, but neither is a
translation of the other, and mostly the same knowledge is covered, but
a sentence-level mapping would not exist?

If so, Wikipedia sounds like an ideal source.
E.g.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris
  http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football
  http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football

etc.

Darren


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