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Building and Using Comparable Corpora for Multilingual Natural Language Processing

By (author) Serge Sharoff, By (author) Reinhard Rapp, By (author) Pierre Zweigenbaum

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This book provides a comprehensive overview of methods to build comparable corporaÂ and of their applications, including machine translation, cross-lingual transfer, andÂ various kinds of multilingual natural language processing. The authors begin withÂ a brief history on the topic followed by a comparison to parallel resources and anÂ explanation of why comparable corpora have become more widely used. In particular,Â they provide the basis for the multilingual capabilities of pre-trained models, suchÂ as BERT or GPT. The book then focuses on building comparable corpora, aligningÂ their sentences to create a database of suitable translations, and using these sentenceÂ translations to produce dictionaries and term banks. Then, it is explained howÂ comparable corpora can be used to build machine translation engines and to developÂ a wide variety of multilingual applications.