Czech-English Manual Word Alignment
Czech-English Manual Word Alignment
Author: David Mareček
License: Creative Commons - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Download the data from the LINDAT repository: http://hdl.handle.net/11234/1-1804
This corpus of manually aligned Czech-English parallel sentences have been created in 2008. Its purpose was to test alignment quality of automatic word-alignment tools. The data were revised and uploaded to LINDAT in 2016. The corpus comprises 2500 parallel sentences from 7 different sources.
| dirname | source | #chunks | #sentences | #ENtokens | #CStokens | #alltokens |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| celex | Acquis Communautaire | 10 | 501 | 13,512 | 10,752 | 24,264 |
| rd | Reader’s Digest | 7 | 350 | 6,294 | 5,792 | 12,086 |
| project_syndicate | Project Syndicate | 10 | 484 | 10,714 | 9,990 | 20,704 |
| kacenka | Kačenka | 2 | 100 | 3,006 | 2,553 | 5,559 |
| books | E-Books | 1 | 50 | 797 | 633 | 1,430 |
| named_entities | Project Syndicate with NE | 168 | 500 | 12,799 | 11,052 | 23,871 |
| pcedt | PCEDT | 22 | 515 | 12,697 | 12,174 | 24,871 |
| total | 190 | 2500 | 59,819 | 52,946 | 112,765 |
The description and links to the individual data sources, annotation guidelines and the description of the annotation procedure is in Chapter 4 of David Mareček's diploma thesis, which is included in the package.
Manually aligned data are in directory 'data'.
Automatically merged alignments by two different annotators are in directory 'merged_data'.
You can browse the manual alignments using program ALPACO.
Usage: perl tools/alpaco.pl
Annotators (file extensions in brackets): Ondřej Bojar (.o.wa), Magdalena Prokopová (.p.wa), Martin Popel (.m.wa), Zuzana Škardová (.z.wa), Markus Giger (.g.wa), Jiří Januška (.j.wa)
How to cite
If you make use of the CzEnAli corpus, please cite my thesis:
@mastersthesis{ marecek:2008,
title = {Automatic Alignment of Tectogrammatical Trees from Czech-English Parallel Corpus},
author = {David Mare{\v{c}}ek},
year = {2008},
school = {Charles University},
address = {{MFF} {UK}},
}