A parallel corpus for evaluating machine translation between Arabic and european languages

Nizar Habash; Nasser Zalmout; Dima Taji; Hoang Hieu; Maverick Alzate

doi:10.18653/v1/e17-2038

A parallel corpus for evaluating machine translation between Arabic and european languages

Nizar Habash, Nasser Zalmout, Dima Taji, Hoang Hieu, Maverick Alzate

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We present Arab-Acquis, a large publicly available dataset for evaluating machine translation between 22 European languages and Arabic. Arab-Acquis consists of over 12,000 sentences from the JRCAcquis (Acquis Communautaire) corpus translated twice by professional translators, once from English and once from French, and totaling over 600,000 words. The corpus follows previous data splits in the literature for tuning, development, and testing. We describe the corpus and how it was created. We also present the first benchmarking results on translating to and from Arabic for 22 European languages.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Short Papers
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	235-241
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510838604
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/e17-2038
State	Published - 2017
Event	15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2017 - Valencia, Spain Duration: Apr 3 2017 → Apr 7 2017

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Name	15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2017 - Proceedings of Conference
Volume	2

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Other	15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2017
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Valencia
Period	4/3/17 → 4/7/17

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Linguistics and Language
Language and Linguistics

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Habash, N., Zalmout, N., Taji, D., Hieu, H., & Alzate, M. (2017). A parallel corpus for evaluating machine translation between Arabic and european languages. In Short Papers (pp. 235-241). (15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2017 - Proceedings of Conference; Vol. 2). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/e17-2038

A parallel corpus for evaluating machine translation between Arabic and european languages. / Habash, Nizar; Zalmout, Nasser; Taji, Dima et al.
Short Papers. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2017. p. 235-241 (15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2017 - Proceedings of Conference; Vol. 2).

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Habash, N, Zalmout, N, Taji, D, Hieu, H & Alzate, M 2017, A parallel corpus for evaluating machine translation between Arabic and european languages. in Short Papers. 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2017 - Proceedings of Conference, vol. 2, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 235-241, 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2017, Valencia, Spain, 4/3/17. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/e17-2038

Habash N, Zalmout N, Taji D, Hieu H, Alzate M. A parallel corpus for evaluating machine translation between Arabic and european languages. In Short Papers. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2017. p. 235-241. (15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2017 - Proceedings of Conference). doi: 10.18653/v1/e17-2038

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