GALE Phase 2 Chinese Web Parallel Text

Item Name: GALE Phase 2 Chinese Web Parallel Text
Author(s): Lauren Friedman, Hubert Jin, Song Chen, Gary Krug, Stephanie Strassel
LDC Catalog No.: LDC2014T26
ISBN: 1-58563-697-5
ISLRN: 553-178-294-380-2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.35111/rp11-v735
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Member Year(s): 2014
DCMI Type(s): Text
Data Source(s): newsgroups, weblogs
Project(s): GALE
Application(s): machine translation
Language(s): Mandarin Chinese, English, Chinese
Language ID(s): cmn, eng, zho
License(s): LDC User Agreement for Non-Members
Online Documentation: LDC2014T26 Documents
Licensing Instructions: Subscription & Standard Members, and Non-Members
Citation: Friedman, Lauren, et al. GALE Phase 2 Chinese Web Parallel Text LDC2014T26. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 2014.
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Introduction

GALE Phase 2 Chinese Web Parallel Text was developed by the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC). Along with other corpora, the parallel text in this release comprised training data for Phase 2 of the DARPA GALE (Global Autonomous Language Exploitation) Program. This corpus contains Chinese source text and corresponding English translations selected from weblog and newsgroup data collected by LDC and translated by LDC or under its direction.

Data

This release includes 46 source-translation document pairs, comprising 66,779 tokens of translated data. Data is drawn from four Chinese weblog and newsgroup sources.

Data was manually selected for translation according to several criteria, including linguistic features and topic features. The files were formatted into a human-readable translation format and assigned to translation vendors. Translators followed LDC's Chinese to English translation guidelines. Bilingual LDC staff performed quality control procedures on the completed translations.

Source data and translations are distributed in TDF format. TDF files are tab-delimited files containing one segment of text along with meta information about that segment. Each field in the TDF file is described in TDF_format.text. All data are encoded in UTF-8.

Samples

Please view this Chinese sample and English sample.

Updates

None at this time.

Sponsorship

This work was supported in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, GALE Program Grant No. HR0011-06-1-0003. The content of this publication does not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of the Government, and no official endorsement should be inferred.

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