Cleaning the Europarl Corpus for Linguistic Applications
- We discovered several recurring errors in the current version of the Europarl Corpus originating both from the web site of the European Parliament and the corpus compilation based thereon. The most frequent error was incompletely extracted metadata leaving non-textual fragments within the textual parts of the corpus files. This is, on average, the case for every second speaker change. We not only cleaned the Europarl Corpus by correcting several kinds of errors, but also aligned the speakers’ contributions of all available languages and compiled every- thing into a new XML-structured corpus. This facilitates a more sophisticated selection of data, e.g. querying the corpus for speeches by speakers of a particular political group or in particular language combinations.
Author: | Johannes Graën, Dolores Batinić, Martin Volk |
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URN: | http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:hil2-opus-2857 |
ISBN: | 978-3-934105-46-1 |
Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the 12th Edition of the KONVENS Conference Vol. 1. Hildesheim, Germany. October 8 – 10, 2014 |
Publisher: | Universitätsverlag Hildesheim |
Place of publication: | Hildesheim |
Editor: | Josef Ruppenhofer, Gertrud Faaß |
Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2014 |
Date of Publication (online): | 2017/02/27 |
Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
Reviewstate: | (Verlags)-Lektorat |
Tag: | corpus linguistics |
GND Keyword: | Computerlinguistik; Korpus <Linguistik> |
First Page: | 222 |
Last Page: | 227 |
DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
Open Access?: | ja |
Linguistics-Classification: | Computerlinguistik |
Linguistics-Classification: | Korpuslinguistik |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0 Deutschland |