Between Comparable and Parallel: English-Czech Corpus from Wikipedia

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Authors	ŠTROMAJEROVÁ Adéla BAISA Vít BLAHUŠ Marek
Year of publication	2016
Type	Article in Proceedings
Conference	RASLAN 2016 Recent Advances in Slavonic Natural Language Processing
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Informatics
Citation
Web	https://nlp.fi.muni.cz/raslan/2016/paper03-Stromajerova_Baisa_Blahus.pdf
Field	Informatics
Keywords	parallel corpora; comparable corpora; Wikipedia
Description	We describe the process of creating a parallel corpus from Czech and English Wikipedias using methods which are language independent. The corpus consists of Czech and English Wikipedia articles, the Czech ones being translations of the English ones, is aligned on sentence level and is accessible in Sketch Engine corpus manager.
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