[Corpora-List] Seeking for a free comparable corpus

[Francis Bond]

G'day.

> No, articles from Wikipedia in different languages are NOT a comparable
> corpus, for many reasons
>
> First, most of the time they are a (more or less free) translation of a
> master/initial one.

Do you have a citation for this?   As far as I know it is not
generally true, pages are written pretty much entirely independently
(at least for the English and Japanese Wikipedias which I am
experienced with).  I also clicked a random sample of languages for
the page on tennis, and they are all very differently structured.

I seem to recall a shared task on aligning sentences in wikipedia
articles that found them not at all similar, but I am afraid I can't
find the paper: does anyone else recall it?

-- 
Francis Bond <http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/fcbond/>
Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
Nanyang Technological University

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