TransLiTex: A Parallel Corpus of Translated Literary Texts

Amel Fraisse 1 Quoc-Tan Tran 1 Ronald Jenn 2 Patrick Paroubek 3 Shelley Fishkin 4
1 GERIICO - Groupe d'Études et de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Information et COmmunication (GERiiCO) - EA 4073
2 CECILLE - Centre d'Études en Civilisations Langues et Lettres Étrangères (CECILLE) - EA 4074
3 LIMSI - Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur
4 Stanford University [Stanford]
Abstract : In this paper, we present our ongoing research work to create a massively parallel corpus of translated literary texts which is useful for applications in computational linguistics, translation studies and cross-linguistic corpus studies. Using a crowdsourcing approach, we identified and collected 29 translations of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn published in 23 languages including less-resourced languages. We report on the current status of the corpus, with 5 chapter-aligned translations (English-Dutch, two English-Hungarian, English-Polish and English-Russian). We evaluated the correctness of chapter alignment by computing the percentage of common words between the English version and the translated ones. Results show high percentages that vary between 43% and 64% proving the high correctness of chapter alignment.
Keywords : parallel corpus comparable corpus translated literary texts
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Amel Fraisse, Quoc-Tan Tran, Ronald Jenn, Patrick Paroubek, Shelley Fishkin. TransLiTex: A Parallel Corpus of Translated Literary Texts. Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), May 2018, Miyazaki, Japan. 〈hal-01827884〉

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