Measuring Comparability of Multilingual Corpora Extracted from Wikipedia

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  • Pablo Gamallo Otero
  • Issac González López
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Comparable corpora can be used for many linguistic tasks such as bilingual lexicon extraction. By improving the quality of comparable corpora, we improve the quality of the extraction. This article describes some strategies to build comparable corpora from Wikipedia and proposes a measure of comparability. Experiments were performed on Portuguese, Spanish, and English Wikipedia.

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تاریخ انتشار 2011