Michel Simard
Laboratoire de Recherche Appliquée en Linguistique Informatique (RALI)
Université de Montréal
simardm@IRO.UMontreal.CA
The BAF is a corpus of English and French translations,
hand-aligned at the sentence level, which was developed by the
University of Montreal's RALI laboratory, within the ``Action de
recherche concertée'' (ARC) A2, a cooperative research project
initiated and financed by the AUPELF-UREF. The corpus, which
totals approximately
words, is primarily intended as an
evaluation tool in the development of automatic bilingual text
alignment method. In this paper, we discuss why this corpus was
assembled, how it was produced, and what it contains. We also
describe some of the computer tools that were developed and used in
the process.