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| Title | Parallel Aligned Treebanks at LDC: New Challenges Interfacing Existing Infrastructures |
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| Authors | Xuansong Li, Stephanie Strassel, Stephen Grimes, Safa Ismael, Mohamed Maamouri, Ann Bies and Nianwen Xue |
| Abstract | Parallel aligned treebanks (PAT) are linguistic corpora annotated with morphological and syntactic structures that are aligned at sentence as well as sub-sentence levels. They are valuable resources for improving machine translation (MT) quality. Recently, there has been an increasing demand for such data, especially for divergent language pairs. The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) and its academic partners have been developing Arabic-English and Chinese-English PATs for several years. This paper describes the PAT corpus creation effort for the program GALE (Global Autonomous Language Exploitation) and introduces the potential issues of scaling up this PAT effort for the program BOLT (Broad Operational Language Translation). Based on existing infrastructures and in the light of current annotation process, challenges and approaches, we are exploring new methodologies to address emerging challenges in constructing PATs, including data volume bottlenecks, dialect issues of Arabic languages, and new genre features related to rapidly changing social media. Preliminary experimental results are presented to show the feasibility of the approaches proposed. |
| Topics | Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.), Machine Translation, SpeechToSpeech Translation, Multilinguality |
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Parallel Aligned Treebanks at LDC: New Challenges Interfacing Existing Infrastructures |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{LI12.277, author = {Xuansong Li and Stephanie Strassel and Stephen Grimes and Safa Ismael and Mohamed Maamouri and Ann Bies and Nianwen Xue}, title = {Parallel Aligned Treebanks at LDC: New Challenges Interfacing Existing Infrastructures}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)}, year = {2012}, month = {may}, date = {23-25}, address = {Istanbul, Turkey}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Mehmet Uğur Doğan and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-7-7}, language = {english} } |