%0 Journal Article
%T PARADOCS: A Language Independant Go-Between for Mating Parallel Documents PARADOCS : l'entremetteur de documents parall¨¨les ind¨¦pendant de la langue
%A Alexandre Patry
%A Philippe Langlais
%J Traitement Automatique des Langues
%D 2011
%I Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues (ATALA)
%X Parallel corpora are the bread and butter of a number of machine translation tech- nologies. Therefore, important efforts are regularly spent in acquiring new ones. This task often involves a rather cumbersome manual inspection and it is rather difficult to set up a strategy that fits all the needs. We thus developed PARADOCS, a system aiming at doing this automatically. Our solution exploits numerical entities in documents in order to pair them. A classifier trained to recognize parallel text coupled to an information retrieval engine controlling the search space of candidate pairs are the main components of our approach. We tested PARADOCS on a number of tasks involving numerous pairs of languages and report good results.
%K Parallel corpora
%K Information Retrieval
%K Machine Translation
%U http://www.atala.org/IMG/pdf/3-Patry-Langlais-TAL51-2.pdf