Parallel corpora

bnl2709 — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:57:05 +0000

The name sounds fancy, but really the concept is simple. Most corpora are monolingual, but with parallel corpora, the texts have been translated so when you search for a term in one language, you can see the way that word has been translated into the other language(s).

If you want to play around with this, the link is http://www.let.rug.nl/~tiedeman/OPUS/.

Here is an example of searching for the English word ‘honey’ in TURkish:

tur
220	tatlım
29	hayatım
17	canım
14	Tatlım
5	Hayatım
4	bal

Now, if you click on a number beside the term you are interested in, you will get a listing of the original English text with ‘HONEY’ and the translation of that text. In this case, I clicked on ‘14′ to see how ‘Tatlim’ appeared with the English translations (from movie subtitles):



12162141	Oh , honey , you were incredible .
tur	- Tatlım , müthiştin .
14931248	- Honey , honey .
tur	- Tatlım , tatlım .
15944691	- honey , let’ s go .
tur	Tatlım , hadi gidelim , hadi gidelim , hadi gidelim .
16975602	Oh , honey , he was trying to save his pet .
tur	Tatlım , hayvanını kurtarmaya çalışıyordu .
16983418	Hey , honey .
tur	Hey , Tatlım !
16988175	That was sweet , honey .
tur	Tatlım bu çok hoş .
17994433	Honey , honey , here .
tur	Tatlım , tatlım , buraya koy .
25470953	I’ m so proud of you , honey … being out in the world like this .
tur	Tatlım , seninle gurur duyuyorum — böyle bir dünyaya çıkışınla .
25471594	I’ m just waiting for you , honey .
tur	Tatlım , ben sadece seni bekliyordum .
28966134	Honey , honey .
tur	Tatlım , tatlım .

Also, if you click on any word in one of the foreign languages, you’ll see a list of the possible translations in English. In this case, this is how Tatlim maps into English:

eng
220	honey
56	sweetheart
51	dear
51	sweetie
14	darling
8	baby
7	Honey
7	hon
2	now
2	Sweetheart

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Parallel corpora