OpusTools and Parallel Corpus Diagnostics

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Abstract

This paper introduces OpusTools, a package for downloading and processing parallel corpora included in the OPUS corpus collection. The package implements tools for accessing compressed data in their archived release format and make it possible to easily convert between common formats. OpusTools also includes tools for language identification and data filtering as well as tools for importing data from various sources into the OPUS format. We show the use of these tools in parallel corpus creation and data diagnostics. The latter is especially useful for the identification of potential problems and errors in the extensive data set. Using these tools, we can now monitor the validity of data sets and improve the overall quality and consitency of the data collection.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020)
EditorsNicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
Number of pages8
Place of PublicationParis
PublisherEuropean Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Publication date17 May 2020
Pages3782-3789
ISBN (Electronic)979-10-95546-34-4
Publication statusPublished - 17 May 2020
MoE publication typeA4 Article in conference proceedings
EventLanguage Resources and Evaluation Conference - [LREC 2020 was cancelled]
Duration: 11 May 202016 May 2020
Conference number: 12
https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/

Bibliographical note

12th Edition of its Language Resources and Evaluation Conference was cancelled due to Covid 19 pandemic.

Fields of Science

  • 113 Computer and information sciences
  • Machine translation
  • Corpus
  • Multilingual

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