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Lectures translation is a case of spoken language translation and there is a lack of publicly available parallel corpora for this purpose. To address this, we examine a language independent framework for parallel corpus mining which is a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Haiyue Song , Raj Dabre , Atsushi Fujita , Sadao Kurohashi

Identifying cross-language plagiarism is challenging, especially for distant language pairs and sense-for-sense translations. We introduce the new multilingual retrieval model Cross-Language Ontology-Based Similarity Analysis (CL-OSA) for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Johannes Stegmüller , Fabian Bauer-Marquart , Norman Meuschke , Terry Ruas , Moritz Schubotz , Bela Gipp

This article presents a hybrid methodology for building a multilingual corpus designed to support the study of emerging concepts in the humanities and social sciences (HSS), illustrated here through the case of ``non-technological…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Revekka Kyriakoglou , Anna Pappa

Document alignment aims to identify pairs of documents in two distinct languages that are of comparable content or translations of each other. Such aligned data can be used for a variety of NLP tasks from training cross-lingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Ahmed El-Kishky , Francisco Guzmán

The ability to compare the semantic similarity between text corpora is important in a variety of natural language processing applications. However, standard methods for evaluating these metrics have yet to be established. We propose a set…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-30 George Kour , Samuel Ackerman , Orna Raz , Eitan Farchi , Boaz Carmeli , Ateret Anaby-Tavor

We propose a simple unsupervised method for extracting pseudo-parallel monolingual sentence pairs from comparable corpora representative of two different text styles, such as news articles and scientific papers. Our approach does not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Nikola I. Nikolov , Richard H. R. Hahnloser

Parallel corpus is a critical resource in machine learning-based translation. The task of collecting, extracting, and aligning texts in order to build an acceptable corpus for doing the translation is very tedious most especially for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Kristine Mae Adlaon , Nelson Marcos

This paper experiments with frequency-based corpus similarity measures across 39 languages using a register prediction task. The goal is to quantify (i) the distance between different corpora from the same language and (ii) the homogeneity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Haipeng Li , Jonathan Dunn

The parallel corpus for multilingual NLP tasks, deep learning applications like Statistical Machine Translation Systems is very important. The parallel corpus of Hindi-English language pair available for news translation task till date is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Aditya Kumar Pathak , Priyankit Acharya , Dilpreet Kaur , Rakesh Chandra Balabantaray

In this paper, a novel approach is proposed to automatically construct parallel discourse corpus for dialogue machine translation. Firstly, the parallel subtitle data and its corresponding monolingual movie script data are crawled and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Longyue Wang , Xiaojun Zhang , Zhaopeng Tu , Andy Way , Qun Liu

The availability of parallel sentence simplification (SS) is scarce for neural SS modelings. We propose an unsupervised method to build SS corpora from large-scale bilingual translation corpora, alleviating the need for SS supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Xinyu Lu , Jipeng Qiang , Yun Li , Yunhao Yuan , Yi Zhu

This paper presents a novel research problem on joint discovery of commonalities and differences between two individual documents (or document sets), called Comparative Document Analysis (CDA). Given any pair of documents from a document…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-10-27 Xiang Ren , Yuanhua Lv , Kuansan Wang , Jiawei Han

With the increasing accessibility and utilization of multilingual documents, Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) has emerged as an important research area. Conventionally, CLIR tasks have been conducted under settings where the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Seongtae Hong , Youngjoon Jang , Jungseob Lee , Hyeonseok Moon , Heuiseok Lim

Parallel corpora are a valuable resource for machine translation, but at present their availability and utility is limited by genre- and domain-specificity, licensing restrictions, and the basic difficulty of locating parallel texts in all…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Philip Resnik

Cross-lingual information retrieval is a challenging task in the absence of aligned parallel corpora. In this paper, we address this problem by considering topically aligned corpora designed for evaluating an IR setup. To emphasize, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Mitodru Niyogi , Kripabandhu Ghosh , Arnab Bhattacharya

Word alignment over parallel corpora has a wide variety of applications, including learning translation lexicons, cross-lingual transfer of language processing tools, and automatic evaluation or analysis of translation outputs. The great…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Zi-Yi Dou , Graham Neubig

This work improves monolingual sentence alignment for text simplification, specifically for text in standard and simple Wikipedia. We introduce a convolutional neural network structure to model similarity between two sentences. Due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Yonghui Huang , Yunhui Li , Yi Luan

High-quality parallel corpora are essential for Machine Translation (MT) research and translation teaching. However, Arabic-English resources remain scarce and existing datasets mainly consist of simple one-to-one mappings. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Baorong Huang , Ali Asiri

We present 20min-XD (20 Minuten cross-lingual document-level), a French-German, document-level comparable corpus of news articles, sourced from the Swiss online news outlet 20 Minuten/20 minutes. Our dataset comprises around 15,000 article…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Michelle Wastl , Jannis Vamvas , Selena Calleri , Rico Sennrich

This paper proposes a method for extracting translations of morphologically constructed terms from comparable corpora. The method is based on compositional translation and exploits translation equivalences at the morpheme-level, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-10-23 Estelle Delpech , Béatrice Daille , Emmanuel Morin , Claire Lemaire