MultiUN: A Multilingual Corpus from United Nation Documents

7852

Authors

nan

Abstract

AbstractThis paper describes the acquisition, preparation and properties of a corpus extracted from the official documents of the United Nations (UN). This corpus is available in all 6 official languages of the UN, consisting of around 300 million words per language. We describe the methods we used for crawling, document formatting, and sentence alignment. This corpus also includes a common test set for machine translation. We present the results of a French-Chinese machine translation experiment performed on this corpus.

Keywords

nan

Full Content

nan

Labeled Text

AbstractThis paper describes the acquisition, preparation and properties of a corpus extracted from the official documents of the United Nations (UN). This corpus is available in all 6 official languages of the UN, consisting of around 300 million words per language. We describe the methods we used for crawling, document formatting, and sentence alignment. This corpus also includes a common test set for machine translation. We present the results of a French-Chinese machine translation experiment performed on this corpus.

Publication Details

Paper ID:
7852
Year:
2010
Publication:
TIPSTER
Publication Type:
conf
DOI:
nan