Parallel Text Processing: Alignment and Use of Translation Corpora: 13 (Text, Speech and Language Technology, 13) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792365461 ISBN 13: 9780792365464

Publisher: Springer, 2000

Synopsis

l This book evolved from the ARCADE evaluation exercise that started in 1995. The project's goal is to evaluate alignment systems for parallel texts, i. e. , texts accompanied by their translation. Thirteen teams from various places around the world have participated so far and for the first time, some ten to fifteen years after the first alignment techniques were designed, the community has been able to get a clear picture of the behaviour of alignment systems. Several chapters in this book describe the details of competing systems, and the last chapter is devoted to the description of the evaluation protocol and results. The remaining chapters were especially commissioned from researchers who have been major figures in the field in recent years, in an attempt to address a wide range of topics that describe the state of the art in parallel text processing and use. As I recalled in the introduction, the Rosetta stone won eternal fame as the prototype of parallel texts, but such texts are probably almost as old as the invention of writing. Nowadays, parallel texts are electronic, and they are be­ coming an increasingly important resource for building the natural language processing tools needed in the "multilingual information society" that is cur­ rently emerging at an incredible speed. Applications are numerous, and they are expanding every day: multilingual lexicography and terminology, machine and human translation, cross-language information retrieval, language learning, etc.

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From the reviews:

"Parallel Text Processing succeeds admirably at its goals and will be of use to a wide range of people...I can easily imagine using this book both to introduce ideas in a graduate seminar and as a reference for research...All readers will be grateful that the editor chose to include separate and fairly thorough indexes for terms, authors, and languages and writing systems." (Philip Resnik, Computational Linguistics, 27:04)

Synopsis

With the rising importance of multilingualism in language industries, brought about by global markets and world-wide information exchange, parallel corpora, i.e. corpora of texts accompanied by their translation, have become key resources in the development of natural language processing tools. The applications based upon parallel corpora are numerous and growing in number: multilingual lexicography and terminology, machine and human translation, cross-language information retrieval, language learning, etc. The book's chapters have been commissioned from major figures in the field of parallel corpus building and exploitation, with the aim of showing the state-of-the-art in parallel text alignment and use ten to fifteen years after the first parallel-text alignment techniques were developed.Within the book, the following broad themes are addressed: techniques for the alignment of parallel texts at various levels such as sentence, clause, and word; the use of parallel texts in fields as diverse as translation, lexicography, and information retrieval; and, available corpus resources and the evaluation of alignment methods.

The book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of computational linguistics, terminology, lexicography and translation, both in academia and industry.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792365461
• ISBN 13: 9780792365464
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 426
• Editor: Véronis Jean