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ParCoLab: A Parallel Corpus for Serbian, French and English

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Text, Speech, and Dialogue (TSD 2017)

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ParCoLab is a trilingual parallel corpus containing texts in Serbian, French and English. It is developed at the CLLE-ERSS research unit (UMR 5263 CNRS) at the University of Toulouse, France, in collaboration with the Department of Romance Studies at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. Serbian being one of the less-resourced European languages, this is an important step towards the creation of freely accessible corpora and NLP tools for this language. Our main goal is to provide the scientific community with a high-quality resource that can be used in a wide range of applications, such as contrastive linguistic studies, NLP research, machine and computer assisted translation, translation studies, second language learning and teaching, and applied lexicography. The corpus currently contains 7.1M tokens mainly from literary works, but corpus extension and diversification efforts are ongoing. ParCoLab can be queried online and a part of it is available for download.

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    The only two modifications we make is that we introduce an attribute @langOri used in the<teiHeader> in order to encode the language of the original text in the XML files containing translations, and the @id attribute used on the root<TEI> element, indicating the unique ID of the file inside the collection.

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    TED is a platform for short talks on various subjects. See http://www.ted.com/.

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    See, e.g., [23] for POS-tagging and [4] for parsing of English; [21] for POS-tagging, [3] for parsing, and [22] for lemmatization of French.

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Miletic, A., Stosic, D., Marjanović, S. (2017). ParCoLab: A Parallel Corpus for Serbian, French and English. In: Ekštein, K., Matoušek, V. (eds) Text, Speech, and Dialogue. TSD 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10415. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64206-2_18

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