A massively parallel corpus: the Bible in 100 languages

We describe the creation of a massively parallel corpus based on 100 translations of the Bible. We discuss some of the difficulties in acquiring and processing the raw material as well as the potential of the Bible as a corpus for natural language processing. Finally we present a statistical analysi...

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Published in:	Language Resources and Evaluation Vol. 49; no. 2; pp. 375 - 395
Main Authors:	Christodouloupoulos, Christos, Steedman, Mark
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht Springer 01-06-2015 Springer Netherlands Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:	Bible Bibles Computational Linguistics Computer Science Corpus analysis Corpus linguistics English language Language and Literature Linguistics Literary translation Natural language processing Original Paper Parallel corpora Raw materials Social Sciences Statistical analysis Translations Parallel corpus Multilingual corpus Comparative corpus linguistics
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Summary:	We describe the creation of a massively parallel corpus based on 100 translations of the Bible. We discuss some of the difficulties in acquiring and processing the raw material as well as the potential of the Bible as a corpus for natural language processing. Finally we present a statistical analysis of the corpora collected and a detailed comparison between the English translation and other English corpora.
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ISSN:	1574-020X 1572-8412 1574-0218
DOI:	10.1007/s10579-014-9287-y