A parallel corpus of translationese

Ella Rabinovich; Shuly Wintner; Ofek Luis Lewinsohn

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-75487-1_12

A parallel corpus of translationese

Ella Rabinovich, Shuly Wintner, Ofek Luis Lewinsohn

Department of Computer Science

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

Abstract

We describe a set of bilingual English-French and English-German parallel corpora in which the direction of translation is accurately and reliably annotated. The corpora are diverse, consisting of parliamentary proceedings, literary works, transcriptions of TED talks and political commentary. They will be instrumental for research of translationese and its applications to (human and machine) translation; specifically, they can be used for the task of translationese identification, a research direction that enjoys a growing interest in recent years. To validate the quality and reliability of the corpora, we replicated previous results of supervised and unsupervised identification of translationese, and further extended the experiments to additional datasets and languages.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - 17th International Conference, CICLing 2016, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Alexander Gelbukh
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	140-155
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Print)	9783319754864
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75487-1_12
State	Published - 2018
Event	17th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, CICLing 2016 - Konya, Turkey Duration: 3 Apr 2016 → 9 Apr 2016

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	9624 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	17th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, CICLing 2016
Country/Territory	Turkey
City	Konya
Period	3/04/16 → 9/04/16

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This research was supported by a grant from the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology. We are grateful to Noam Ordan for much advice and encouragement. We also thank Sergiu Nisioi for helpful suggestions. We are grateful to Philipp Koehn for making the Europarl corpus available; to Cyril Goutte, George Foster and Pierre Isabelle for providing us with an annotated version of the Hansard corpus; to François Yvon and András Farkas (http://farkastranslations.com) for contributing their literary corpora; and to the TED OTP team for sharing TED talks and their translations. We thank also Raphael Salkie for sharing his diverse English-German corpus.

Funding Information:
Acknowledgments. This research was supported by a grant from the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology. We are grateful to Noam Ordan for much advice and encouragement. We also thank Sergiu Nisioi for helpful suggestions. We are grateful to Philipp Koehn for making the Europarl corpus available; to Cyril Goutte, George Foster and Pierre Isabelle for providing us with an annotated version of the Hansard corpus; to Fran¸cois Yvon and András Farkas (http://farkastranslations.com) for contributing their literary corpora; and to the TED OTP team for sharing TED talks and their translations. We thank also Raphael Salkie for sharing his diverse English-German corpus.

Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018.

Keywords

Machine translation
Parallel corpora
Translationese

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
Computer Science (all)

Access to Document

10.1007/978-3-319-75487-1_12

Cite this

Rabinovich, E., Wintner, S., & Lewinsohn, O. L. (2018). A parallel corpus of translationese. In A. Gelbukh (Ed.), Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - 17th International Conference, CICLing 2016, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 140-155). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 9624 LNCS). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75487-1_12

Rabinovich, Ella ; Wintner, Shuly ; Lewinsohn, Ofek Luis. / A parallel corpus of translationese. Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - 17th International Conference, CICLing 2016, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Alexander Gelbukh. Springer Verlag, 2018. pp. 140-155 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

@inproceedings{eb28dc96f3324967bb6438a64963a361,

title = "A parallel corpus of translationese",

abstract = "We describe a set of bilingual English-French and English-German parallel corpora in which the direction of translation is accurately and reliably annotated. The corpora are diverse, consisting of parliamentary proceedings, literary works, transcriptions of TED talks and political commentary. They will be instrumental for research of translationese and its applications to (human and machine) translation; specifically, they can be used for the task of translationese identification, a research direction that enjoys a growing interest in recent years. To validate the quality and reliability of the corpora, we replicated previous results of supervised and unsupervised identification of translationese, and further extended the experiments to additional datasets and languages.",

keywords = "Machine translation, Parallel corpora, Translationese",

author = "Ella Rabinovich and Shuly Wintner and Lewinsohn, {Ofek Luis}",

note = "Funding Information: This research was supported by a grant from the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology. We are grateful to Noam Ordan for much advice and encouragement. We also thank Sergiu Nisioi for helpful suggestions. We are grateful to Philipp Koehn for making the Europarl corpus available; to Cyril Goutte, George Foster and Pierre Isabelle for providing us with an annotated version of the Hansard corpus; to Fran{\c c}ois Yvon and Andr{\'a}s Farkas (http://farkastranslations.com) for contributing their literary corpora; and to the TED OTP team for sharing TED talks and their translations. We thank also Raphael Salkie for sharing his diverse English-German corpus. Funding Information: Acknowledgments. This research was supported by a grant from the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology. We are grateful to Noam Ordan for much advice and encouragement. We also thank Sergiu Nisioi for helpful suggestions. We are grateful to Philipp Koehn for making the Europarl corpus available; to Cyril Goutte, George Foster and Pierre Isabelle for providing us with an annotated version of the Hansard corpus; to Fran¸cois Yvon and Andr{\'a}s Farkas (http://farkastranslations.com) for contributing their literary corpora; and to the TED OTP team for sharing TED talks and their translations. We thank also Raphael Salkie for sharing his diverse English-German corpus. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018.; 17th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, CICLing 2016 ; Conference date: 03-04-2016 Through 09-04-2016",

year = "2018",

doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-75487-1_12",

language = "English",

isbn = "9783319754864",

series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",

publisher = "Springer Verlag",

pages = "140--155",

editor = "Alexander Gelbukh",

booktitle = "Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - 17th International Conference, CICLing 2016, Revised Selected Papers",

address = "Germany",

}

Rabinovich, E, Wintner, S & Lewinsohn, OL 2018, A parallel corpus of translationese. in A Gelbukh (ed.), Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - 17th International Conference, CICLing 2016, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 9624 LNCS, Springer Verlag, pp. 140-155, 17th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, CICLing 2016, Konya, Turkey, 3/04/16. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75487-1_12

A parallel corpus of translationese. / Rabinovich, Ella; Wintner, Shuly; Lewinsohn, Ofek Luis.
Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - 17th International Conference, CICLing 2016, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Alexander Gelbukh. Springer Verlag, 2018. p. 140-155 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 9624 LNCS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

TY - GEN

T1 - A parallel corpus of translationese

AU - Rabinovich, Ella

AU - Wintner, Shuly

AU - Lewinsohn, Ofek Luis

N1 - Funding Information: This research was supported by a grant from the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology. We are grateful to Noam Ordan for much advice and encouragement. We also thank Sergiu Nisioi for helpful suggestions. We are grateful to Philipp Koehn for making the Europarl corpus available; to Cyril Goutte, George Foster and Pierre Isabelle for providing us with an annotated version of the Hansard corpus; to François Yvon and András Farkas (http://farkastranslations.com) for contributing their literary corpora; and to the TED OTP team for sharing TED talks and their translations. We thank also Raphael Salkie for sharing his diverse English-German corpus. Funding Information: Acknowledgments. This research was supported by a grant from the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology. We are grateful to Noam Ordan for much advice and encouragement. We also thank Sergiu Nisioi for helpful suggestions. We are grateful to Philipp Koehn for making the Europarl corpus available; to Cyril Goutte, George Foster and Pierre Isabelle for providing us with an annotated version of the Hansard corpus; to Fran¸cois Yvon and András Farkas (http://farkastranslations.com) for contributing their literary corpora; and to the TED OTP team for sharing TED talks and their translations. We thank also Raphael Salkie for sharing his diverse English-German corpus. Publisher Copyright: © Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018.

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - We describe a set of bilingual English-French and English-German parallel corpora in which the direction of translation is accurately and reliably annotated. The corpora are diverse, consisting of parliamentary proceedings, literary works, transcriptions of TED talks and political commentary. They will be instrumental for research of translationese and its applications to (human and machine) translation; specifically, they can be used for the task of translationese identification, a research direction that enjoys a growing interest in recent years. To validate the quality and reliability of the corpora, we replicated previous results of supervised and unsupervised identification of translationese, and further extended the experiments to additional datasets and languages.

AB - We describe a set of bilingual English-French and English-German parallel corpora in which the direction of translation is accurately and reliably annotated. The corpora are diverse, consisting of parliamentary proceedings, literary works, transcriptions of TED talks and political commentary. They will be instrumental for research of translationese and its applications to (human and machine) translation; specifically, they can be used for the task of translationese identification, a research direction that enjoys a growing interest in recent years. To validate the quality and reliability of the corpora, we replicated previous results of supervised and unsupervised identification of translationese, and further extended the experiments to additional datasets and languages.

KW - Machine translation

KW - Parallel corpora

KW - Translationese

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85044421481&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-75487-1_12

DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-75487-1_12

M3 - Conference contribution

AN - SCOPUS:85044421481

SN - 9783319754864

T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

SP - 140

EP - 155

BT - Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - 17th International Conference, CICLing 2016, Revised Selected Papers

A2 - Gelbukh, Alexander

PB - Springer Verlag

T2 - 17th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, CICLing 2016

Y2 - 3 April 2016 through 9 April 2016

ER -

Rabinovich E, Wintner S, Lewinsohn OL. A parallel corpus of translationese. In Gelbukh A, editor, Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - 17th International Conference, CICLing 2016, Revised Selected Papers. Springer Verlag. 2018. p. 140-155. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-75487-1_12

A parallel corpus of translationese

Abstract

Publication series

Conference

Bibliographical note

Keywords

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this