BUCC 2012 - 5th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora

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Category BUCC 2012

Deadline: April 01, 2012 | Date: May 26, 2012

Venue/Country: Istanbul, Turkey

Updated: 2011-12-22 10:08:57 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Co-located with LREC 2012

TOPICS

The theme of the workshop will be “Comparable Corpora and the Web”. Nevertheless we solicit contributions to other topics as well, including the following:

Building Comparable Corpora:

Human translations

Automatic and semi-automatic methods

Methods to mine parallel and non-parallel corpora from the Web

Tools and criteria to evaluate the comparability of corpora

Parallel vs non-parallel corpora, monolingual corpora

Rare and minority languages

Across language families

Multi-media/multi-modal comparable corpora

Applications of comparable corpora:

Human translations

Language learning

Cross-language information retrieval & document categorization

Bilingual projections

Machine translation

Writing assistance

Mining from Comparable Corpora:

Extraction of parallel segments or paraphrases from comparable corpora

Extraction of bilingual and multilingual translations of single words and multi-word expressions; proper names, named entities, etc.

For further information, please contact

Pierre Zweigenbaum mailto:pzlimsi.fr