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MultiUN: A Multilingual Corpus from United Nation Documents

Andreas Eisele; Yu Chen
In: Daniel Tapias; Mike Rosner; Stelios Piperidis; Jan Odjik; Joseph Mariani; Bente Maegaard; Khalid Choukri; Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) (Hrsg.). Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation. International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2010), May 19-21, La Valletta, Malta, Pages 2868-2872, ISBN 2-9517408-6-7, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 5/2010.

Abstract

This 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.