Mgr. Jan Pomikálek, Ph.D.

Advanced ('rigorózní') thesis

Building parallel corpora from the Web

Building parallel corpora from the Web
Abstract:
Parallel corpora are a valuable resource for many fields in computational linguistics, e.g. machine translation, cross language information retrieval (CLIR), lexicography. Unfortunately, the sources of parallel texts are very limited. On the other hand, there is World Wide Web with billions of Web pages, some of which are mutual translations. Though its potential for retrieving bilingual texts awaits …more
Abstract:
Parallel corpora are a valuable resource for many fields in computational linguistics, e.g. machine translation, cross language information retrieval (CLIR), lexicography. Unfortunately, the sources of parallel texts are very limited. On the other hand, there is World Wide Web with billions of Web pages, some of which are mutual translations. Though its potential for retrieving bilingual texts awaits …more
 
 
Language used: English
Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 17. 6. 2008

Thesis defence

  • Date of defence: 23. 6. 2008

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