A large Spanish-Catalan parallel corpus release for machine translation

Costa-jussà, Marta R.; Fonollosa, José A Rodriguez; Mariño Acebal, José B.; Poch, Marc; Farrús, Mireia

A large Spanish-Catalan parallel corpus release for machine translation

Citation

Costa-Jussa MR, Fonollosa JAR, Marino JB, Poch M, Farrus M. A large Spanish-Catalan parallel corpus release for machine translation. Computing and Informatics. 2014;33(4):907-20.

Abstract

We present a large Spanish-Catalan parallel corpus extracted from ten years of the paper edition of a bilingual Catalan newspaper. The produced corpus of 7:5M parallel sentences (around 180M words per language) is useful for many natural language applications. We report excellent results when building a statistical machine translation system trained on this parallel corpus. The Spanish-Catalan corpus is partially available via ELDA (Evaluations and Language Resources Distribution Agency) in catalog number ELRA-W0053.