Manual Annotation of Translational Equivalence: The Blinker Project
arXiv:cmp-lg/9805005
Abstract
Bilingual annotators were paid to link roughly sixteen thousand corresponding words between on-line versions of the Bible in modern French and modern English. These annotations are freely available to the research community from http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~melamed . The annotations can be used for several purposes. First, they can be used as a standard data set for developing and testing translation lexicons and statistical translation models. Second, researchers in lexical semantics will be able to mine the annotations for insights about cross-linguistic lexicalization patterns. Third, the annotations can be used in research into certain recently proposed methods for monolingual word-sense disambiguation. This paper describes the annotated texts, the specially-designed annotation tool, and the strategies employed to increase the consistency of the annotations. The annotation process was repeated five times by different annotators. Inter-annotator agreement rates indicate that the annotations are reasonably reliable and that the method is easy to replicate.
References in corpus (1)
Cited by in corpus (6)
- Cross-lingual Annotation Projection for Semantic Roles
- Interpretable Semantic Textual Similarity: Finding and explaining differences between sentences
- HELFI: a Hebrew-Greek-Finnish Parallel Bible Corpus with Cross-Lingual Morpheme Alignment
- A Model for Fine-Grained Alignment of Multilingual Texts
- Understanding and Enhancing the Use of Context for Machine Translation
- Graph Algorithms for Multiparallel Word Alignment