27.2370, FYI: Official Release of the UN Parallel Corpus v1.0

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Subject: 27.2370, FYI: Official Release of the UN Parallel Corpus v1.0

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Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 12:30:18
From: Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt [junczys at amu.edu.pl]
Subject: Official Release of the UN Parallel Corpus v1.0

 
Dear all,

I would like to announce the official release of the United Nations Parallel
Corpus v1.0. The corpus was created as part of the United Nations commitment
to multilingualism and as a reaction to the growing importance of statistical
machine translation (SMT) within the Department for General Assembly and
Conference Management (DGACM) translation services and the United Nations. It
covers 25 years, from 1990 to 2014, and contains documents in the six official
languages of the United Nations: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian,
and Spanish.

The purpose of the corpus is to allow access to multilingual language
resources and facilitate research and progress in various natural language
processing tasks, including machine translation. For convenience, the corpus
is also available pre-packaged as bi-texts for each language pair.

A subset of the corpus is available as a six-language fully-parallel corpus,
i.e. all sentences have equivalents in all six languages. Data from 2015 has
been used to created official development sets and test sets, also fully
aligned across the six official UN languages. The paper reports SMT baselines
for all languages pairs for this corpus.

The corpus is available at:

http://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus

The corresponding publication is available at:

http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2016/pdf/1195_Paper.pdf

While registering, please leave a short description of the work for which you
plan to use the corpus. In the near future we plan to set up a section with
references to papers that describe research done with UN corpus. Feel free to
share links and bibliography items with us (either with me or any of the
authors of the above paper).

Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt
 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics
                     Translation

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)
                     Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)
                     English (eng)
                     French (fra)
                     Russian (rus)
                     Spanish (spa)





 



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