@inproceedings{mccarthy-etal-2020-johns,
    title = "The {J}ohns {H}opkins {U}niversity {B}ible Corpus: 1600+ Tongues for Typological Exploration",
    author = "McCarthy, Arya D.  and
      Wicks, Rachel  and
      Lewis, Dylan  and
      Mueller, Aaron  and
      Wu, Winston  and
      Adams, Oliver  and
      Nicolai, Garrett  and
      Post, Matt  and
      Yarowsky, David",
    editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta  and
      B{\'e}chet, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric  and
      Blache, Philippe  and
      Choukri, Khalid  and
      Cieri, Christopher  and
      Declerck, Thierry  and
      Goggi, Sara  and
      Isahara, Hitoshi  and
      Maegaard, Bente  and
      Mariani, Joseph  and
      Mazo, H{\'e}l{\`e}ne  and
      Moreno, Asuncion  and
      Odijk, Jan  and
      Piperidis, Stelios",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
    month = may,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Marseille, France",
    publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest_wac_2008/2020.lrec-1.352/",
    pages = "2884--2892",
    language = "eng",
    ISBN = "979-10-95546-34-4",
    abstract = "We present findings from the creation of a massively parallel corpus in over 1600 languages, the Johns Hopkins University Bible Corpus (JHUBC). The corpus consists of over 4000 unique translations of the Christian Bible and counting. Our data is derived from scraping several online resources and merging them with existing corpora, combining them under a common scheme that is verse-parallel across all translations. We detail our effort to scrape, clean, align, and utilize this ripe multilingual dataset. The corpus captures the great typological variety of the world`s languages. We catalog this by showing highly similar proportions of representation of Ethnologue`s typological features in our corpus. We also give an example application: projecting pronoun features like clusivity across alignments to richly annotate languages which do not mark the distinction."
}