Building and Using Comparable Corpora

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sharoff, Serge (Editor), Rapp, Reinhard (Editor), Zweigenbaum, Pierre (Editor), Fung, Pascale (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computational linguistics.; Computer Science.; Language Translation and Linguistics.; Computational Linguistics.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).

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...