ParaCrawl: Web-Scale Acquisition of Parallel Corpora

Marta Bañón, Pinzhen Chen, Barry Haddow, Kenneth Heafield, Hieu Hoang, Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Mikel L. Forcada, Amir Kamran, Faheem Kirefu, Philipp Koehn, Sergio Ortiz Rojas, Leopoldo Pla Sempere, Gema Ramírez-Sánchez, Elsa Sarrías, Marek Strelec, Brian Thompson, William Waites, Dion Wiggins, Jaume Zaragoza


Abstract
We report on methods to create the largest publicly available parallel corpora by crawling the web, using open source software. We empirically compare alternative methods and publish benchmark data sets for sentence alignment and sentence pair filtering. We also describe the parallel corpora released and evaluate their quality and their usefulness to create machine translation systems.
Anthology ID:
2020.acl-main.417
Volume:
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Month:
July
Year:
2020
Address:
Online
Editors:
Dan Jurafsky, Joyce Chai, Natalie Schluter, Joel Tetreault
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ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
4555–4567
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.417
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.417
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Cite (ACL):
Marta Bañón, Pinzhen Chen, Barry Haddow, Kenneth Heafield, Hieu Hoang, Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Mikel L. Forcada, Amir Kamran, Faheem Kirefu, Philipp Koehn, Sergio Ortiz Rojas, Leopoldo Pla Sempere, Gema Ramírez-Sánchez, Elsa Sarrías, Marek Strelec, Brian Thompson, William Waites, Dion Wiggins, and Jaume Zaragoza. 2020. ParaCrawl: Web-Scale Acquisition of Parallel Corpora. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 4555–4567, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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ParaCrawl: Web-Scale Acquisition of Parallel Corpora (Bañón et al., ACL 2020)
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.417.pdf
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ParaCrawl