Overview

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. Nevertheless, this research direction has not produced a single authoritative source suitable for researchers and students coming to the field. The proposed volume provides 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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Author:   Serge Sharoff ,  Reinhard Rapp ,  Pierre Zweigenbaum ,  Pascale Fung
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2013
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.718kg
ISBN:  

9783662520062

ISBN 10:   3662520060
Pages:   335
Publication Date:   23 August 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface - Building and Using Comparable Corpora. S.Sharoff, R.Rapp, P.Zweigenbaum.- Overviewing Important Aspects of the Last 20 Years of Research in Comparable Corpora.- S.Sharoff, R.Rapp, P.Zweigenbaum.- Part I: Compiling and Measuring Comparable Corpora.- Multilingual Corpus Collection. S.Shi, P.Fung.- Automatic Comparable Web Corpora Collection and Bilingual Terminology Extraction for Specialized Dictionary Making. A.Gurrutxaga, I.Leturia, I.San Vicente, X.Saralegi.- Statistical Comparability: Methodological Caveats. R.Köhler.- Methods for Collection and Evaluation of Comparable Documents.  M.Lestari Paramita, D.Guthrie, E.Kanoulas, R.Gaizauskas, P.Clough and M.Sanderson.- Measuring the Distance between Comparable Corpora between Languages. S.Sharoff.- Exploiting Comparable Corpora for Lexicon Extraction: Measuring and Improving Corpus Quality. B.Li, E.Gaussier.- Statistical Corpus and Language Comparison on Comparable Corpora. T.Eckart, U.Quasthoff.- Comparable Multilingual Patents as Large-scale Parallel Corpora. B.Lu and B.Tsou.- Part II: Using Comparable Corpora.- Extracting Parallel Phrases from Comparable Data. S.Hewavitharana, S.Vogel.- Exploiting Comparable Corpora.  D.S.Munteanu,  D.Marcu.- Paraphrase Detection in Comparable Monolingual Corpora. L.Deleger, B.Cartoni, P.Zweigenbaum.- Information Network Construction and Alignment from Automatically Acquired Comparable Corpora. H.Ji, W.-P.Lin.- Bilingual Terminology Mining from Comparable Corpora. B.Daille, E.Morin.- The Place of Comparable Corpora in Providing Terminological Reference Information to Online Translators: A Strategic Framework. K.Kageura, T.Abekawa.- Old Needs, New Solutions: Comparable Corpora for Language Professionals. S.Bernardini, A.Ferraresi.- Exploiting the Incomparability of Comparable Corpora for Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies. S.Neumann, S.Hansen-Schirra.

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I would like to recommend `Building and Using Comparable ... to those who are working with or are interested in multilingual and monolingual comparable corpora. ... it is easy to say that the notion of comparable corpora was not only visionary, long-sighted, and productive. It is also easy to say that this volume remains the optimal starting point for any research or for any applications in Language Technology leveraging on comparable corpora. (Marina Santini, forum.santini.se, February, 2017)

I would like to recommend 'Building and Using Comparable ... to those who are working with or are interested in multilingual and monolingual comparable corpora. ... it is easy to say that the notion of comparable corpora was not only visionary, long-sighted, and productive. It is also easy to say that this volume remains the optimal starting point for any research or for any applications in Language Technology leveraging on comparable corpora. (Marina Santini, forum.santini.se, February, 2017)

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