The ParCoLab Parallel Corpus and Its Extension to Four Regional Languages of France

Dejan Stosic, Saša Marjanović, Delphine Bernhard, Xavier Bach, Myriam Bras, Laurent Kevers, Stella Retali-Medori, Marianne Vergez-Couret, Carole Werner

Abstract
Parallel corpora are still scarce for most of the world’s language pairs. The situation is by no means different for regional languages of France. In addition, adequate web interfaces facilitate and encourage the use of parallel corpora by target users, such as language learners and teachers, as well as linguists. In this paper, we describe ParCoLab, a parallel corpus and a web platform for querying the corpus. From its onset, ParCoLab has been geared towards lower-resource languages, with an initial corpus in Serbian, along with French and English (later Spanish). We focus here on the extension of ParCoLab with a parallel corpus for four regional languages of France: Alsatian, Corsican, Occitan and Poitevin-Saintongeais. In particular, we detail criteria for choosing texts and issues related to their collection. The new parallel corpus contains more than 20k tokens per regional language.
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2024.lrec-main.1392
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Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
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May
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2024
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Torino, Italia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, Nianwen Xue
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LREC | COLING
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Dejan Stosic, Saša Marjanović, Delphine Bernhard, Xavier Bach, Myriam Bras, Laurent Kevers, Stella Retali-Medori, Marianne Vergez-Couret, and Carole Werner. 2024. The ParCoLab Parallel Corpus and Its Extension to Four Regional Languages of France. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 16014–16023, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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