The case of InterCorp, a multilingual parallel corpus

Čermák, František; Rosen, Alexandr

doi:10.1075/ijcl.17.3.05cer

Article published In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
Vol. 17:3 (2012) ► pp.411–427

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The case of InterCorp, a multilingual parallel corpus

František Čermák | Charles University, Prague

Alexandr Rosen

Published online: 25 January 2013

https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.17.3.05cer

This paper introduces InterCorp, a parallel corpus including texts in Czech and 27 other languages, available for online searches via a web interface. After discussing some issues and merits of a multilingual resource we argue that it has an important role especially for languages with fewer native speakers, supporting both comparative research and studies of the language from the perspective of other languages. We proceed with an overview of the corpus — the strategy and criteria for including new texts, the representation of available languages and text types, linguistic annotation, and a sketch of pre-processing issues. Finally, we present the search interface and suggest some research opportunities.

Keywords: parallel corpora, comparative corpus linguistics, Czech, European languages, multilingualism

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