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| Title | The AMARA Corpus: Building Parallel Language Resources for the Educational Domain |
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| Authors | Ahmed Abdelali, Francisco Guzman, Hassan Sajjad and Stephan Vogel |
| Abstract | This paper presents the AMARA corpus of on-line educational content: a new parallel corpus of educational video subtitles, multilingually aligned for 20 languages, i.e. 20 monolingual corpora and 190 parallel corpora. This corpus includes both resource-rich languages such as English and Arabic, and resource-poor languages such as Hindi and Thai. In this paper, we describe the gathering, validation, and preprocessing of a large collection of parallel, community-generated subtitles. Furthermore, we describe the methodology used to prepare the data for Machine Translation tasks. Additionally, we provide a document-level, jointly aligned development and test sets for 14 language pairs, designed for tuning and testing Machine Translation systems. We provide baseline results for these tasks, and highlight some of the challenges we face when building machine translation systems for educational content. |
| Topics | , Collaborative Resource Construction |
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The AMARA Corpus: Building Parallel Language Resources for the Educational Domain |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{ABDELALI14.877, author = {Ahmed Abdelali and Francisco Guzman and Hassan Sajjad and Stephan Vogel}, title = {The AMARA Corpus: Building Parallel Language Resources for the Educational Domain}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)}, year = {2014}, month = {may}, date = {26-31}, address = {Reykjavik, Iceland}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Hrafn Loftsson and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-8-4}, language = {english} } |