Using the Europarl corpus for cross-linguistic research

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Belgian Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2013-01-01 DOI:10.1075/BJL.27.02CAR

Bruno Cartoni, S. Zufferey, T. Meyer

引用次数: 32

Abstract

Europarl is a large multilingual corpus containing the minutes of the debates at the European Parliament. This article presents a method to extract different corpora from Europarl: monolingual and multilingual comparable corpora, as well as parallel corpora. Using state-of-the-art measures of homogeneity, we show that these corpora are very similar. In addition, we argue that they present many advantages for research in various fields of linguistics and translation studies, and we also discuss some of their limitations. We conclude by reviewing a number of previous studies that made use of these corpora, emphasizing in each case the possibilities offered by Europarl.

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使用Europarl语料库进行跨语言研究

Europarl是一个包含欧洲议会辩论记录的大型多语种语料库。本文提出了一种从Europarl中提取不同语料库的方法:单语语料库和多语可比语料库，以及平行语料库。使用最先进的同质性测量，我们表明这些语料库非常相似。此外，我们认为它们为语言学和翻译研究的各个领域的研究提供了许多优势，我们也讨论了它们的一些局限性。最后，我们回顾了以前使用这些语料库的一些研究，并在每个案例中强调了Europarl提供的可能性。

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Belgian Journal of Linguistics Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： The Belgian Journal of Linguistics is the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium and includes selected contributions from the international meetings organized by the LSB. Its volumes are topical and address a wide range of subjects in different fields of linguistics and neighboring disciplines (e.g. translation, poetics, political discourse). The BJL transcends its local basis, not only through the international orientation of its active advisory board, but also by inviting international scholars, both to act as guest editors and to contribute original papers. Articles go through an external and discriminating review process with due attention to ensuring the maintenance of the journal"s high-quality content.