Development of a Japanese-English Software Manual Paralell Corpus
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To address the shortage of Japanese-English parallel corpora, we developed a parallel corpus by collecting open source software manuals from the Web. The constructed corpus contains approximately 500 thousand sentence pairs that were aligned automatically by an existing method. We also conducted statistical machine translation (SMT) experiments with the corpus and confirmed that the corpus is useful for SMT.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009