Applications of parallel corpora to the （平行语料库的应用程序）.pdf

Applications of parallel corpora to the development of monolingual language technologies Kevin P. Scannell Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Saint Louis University Saint Louis, Missouri, USA Abstract In 2 we describe the development and contents of an aligned parallel corpus of English and Irish texts, We describe the development of an and in 3 we discuss an application of (a subset of) aligned parallel corpus of English and the corpus; namely, a program to standardize Irish Irish texts, along with a simple application documents written in either prestandard or dialect enabling the standardization of documents forms of the language. written in prestandard or dialect forms of A number of other projects have involved minor- Irish. ity/global language parallel corpora in one way or another, including (but certainly not limited to) the 1 Introduction following: Parallel corpora have many applications in natural language processing for problems involving multi- The EMILLE project (McEnery et al., 2000) ple l