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The BAF: A Corpus of English-French Bitext

Michel Simard
Laboratoire de Recherche Appliquée en Linguistique Informatique (RALI)
Université de Montréal
simardm@IRO.UMontreal.CA

Abstract:

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 $800\ 000$ 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.



 

Michel Simard
4/24/1998