A large web corpus (over 10 billion tokens) licensed under CreativeCommons license family in 50+ languages that has been extracted from CommonCrawl, the largest publicly available general Web crawl to date with about 2 billion crawled URLs.
CsEnVi Pairwise Parallel Corpora consist of Vietnamese-Czech parallel corpus and Vietnamese-English parallel corpus. The corpora were assembled from the following sources:
- OPUS, the open parallel corpus is a growing multilingual corpus of translated open source documents.
The majority of Vi-En and Vi-Cs bitexts are subtitles from movies and television series.
The nature of the bitexts are paraphrasing of each other's meaning, rather than translations.
- TED talks, a collection of short talks on various topics, given primarily in English, transcribed and with transcripts translated to other languages. In our corpus, we use 1198 talks which had English and Vietnamese transcripts available and 784 talks which had Czech and Vietnamese transcripts available in January 2015.
The size of the original corpora collected from OPUS and TED talks is as follows:
CS/VI EN/VI
Sentence 1337199/1337199 2035624/2035624
Word 9128897/12073975 16638364/17565580
Unique word 224416/68237 91905/78333
We improve the quality of the corpora in two steps: normalizing and filtering.
In the normalizing step, the corpora are cleaned based on the general format of subtitles and transcripts. For instance, sequences of dots indicate explicit continuation of subtitles across multiple time frames. The sequences of dots are distributed differently in the source and the target side. Removing the sequence of dots, along with a number of other normalization rules, improves the quality of the alignment significantly.
In the filtering step, we adapt the CzEng filtering tool [1] to filter out bad sentence pairs.
The size of cleaned corpora as published is as follows:
CS/VI EN/VI
Sentence 1091058/1091058 1113177/1091058
Word 6718184/7646701 8518711/8140876
Unique word 195446/59737 69513/58286
The corpora are used as training data in [2].
References:
[1] Ondřej Bojar, Zdeněk Žabokrtský, et al. 2012. The Joy of Parallelism with CzEng 1.0. Proceedings of LREC2012. ELRA. Istanbul, Turkey.
[2] Duc Tam Hoang and Ondřej Bojar, The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics. Volume 104, Issue 1, Pages 75–86, ISSN 1804-0462. 9/2015
ELITR Minuting Corpus consists of transcripts of meetings in Czech and English, their manually created summaries ("minutes") and manual alignments between the two.
Czech meetings are in the computer science and public administration domains and English meetings are in the computer science domain.
Each transcript has one or multiple corresponding minutes files. Alignments are only provided for a portion of the data.
This corpus contains 59 Czech and 120 English meeting transcripts, consisting of 71097 and 87322 dialogue turns respectively. For Czech meetings, we provide 147 total minutes with 55 of them aligned. For English meetings, it is 256 total minutes with 111 of them aligned.
Please find a more detailed description of the data in the included README and stats.tsv files.
If you use this corpus, please cite:
Nedoluzhko, A., Singh, M., Hledíková, M., Ghosal, T., and Bojar, O.
(2022). ELITR Minuting Corpus: A novel dataset for automatic minuting
from multi-party meetings in English and Czech. In Proceedings of the
13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
(LREC-2022), Marseille, France, June. European Language Resources
Association (ELRA). In print.
@inproceedings{elitr-minuting-corpus:2022,
author = {Anna Nedoluzhko and Muskaan Singh and Marie
Hled{\'{\i}}kov{\'{a}} and Tirthankar Ghosal and Ond{\v{r}}ej Bojar},
title = {{ELITR} {M}inuting {C}orpus: {A} Novel Dataset for
Automatic Minuting from Multi-Party Meetings in {E}nglish and {C}zech},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th International Conference
on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2022)},
year = 2022,
month = {June},
address = {Marseille, France},
publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)},
note = {In print.}
}
ESIC (Europarl Simultaneous Interpreting Corpus) is a corpus of 370 speeches (10 hours) in English, with manual transcripts, transcribed simultaneous interpreting into Czech and German, and parallel translations.
The corpus contains source English videos and audios. The interpreters' voices are not published within the corpus, but there is a tool that downloads them from the web of European Parliament, where they are publicly avaiable.
The transcripts are equipped with metadata (disfluencies, mixing voices and languages, read or spontaneous speech, etc.), punctuated, and with word-level timestamps.
The speeches in the corpus come from the European Parliament plenary sessions, from the period 2008-11. Most of the speakers are MEP, both native and non-native speakers of English. The corpus contains metadata about the speakers (name, surname, id, fraction) and about the speech (date, topic, read or spontaneous).
The current version of ESIC is v1.0. It has validation and evaluation parts.
ESIC (Europarl Simultaneous Interpreting Corpus) is a corpus of 370 speeches (10 hours) in English, with manual transcripts, transcribed simultaneous interpreting into Czech and German, and parallel translations.
The corpus contains source English videos and audios. The interpreters' voices are not published within the corpus, but there is a tool that downloads them from the web of European Parliament, where they are publicly avaiable.
The transcripts are equipped with metadata (disfluencies, mixing voices and languages, read or spontaneous speech, etc.), punctuated, and with word-level timestamps.
The speeches in the corpus come from the European Parliament plenary sessions, from the period 2008-11. Most of the speakers are MEP, both native and non-native speakers of English. The corpus contains metadata about the speakers (name, surname, id, fraction) and about the speech (date, topic, read or spontaneous).
ESIC has validation and evaluation parts.
The current version is ESIC v1.1, it extends v1.0 with manual sentence alignment of the tri-parallel texts, and with bi-parallel sentence alignment of English original transcripts and German interpreting.
This machine translation test set contains 2223 Czech sentences collected within the FAUST project (https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/grants/faust, http://hdl.handle.net/11234/1-3308).
Each original (noisy) sentence was normalized (clean1 and clean2) and translated to English independently by two translators.
The original SDP 2014 and 2015 data collections were made available under task-specific ‘evaluation’ licenses to registered SemEval participants. In mid-2016, all original data has been bundled with system submissions, supporting software, an additional SDP-style collection of semantic dependency graphs, and additional background material (from which some of the SDP target representations were derived) for release through the Linguistic Data Consortium (with LDC catalogue number LDC2016 T10).
One of the four English target representations (viz. DM) and the entire Czech data (in the PSD target representation) are not derivative of LDC-licensed annotations and, thus, can be made available for direct download (Open SDP; version 1.1; April 2016) under a more permissive licensing scheme, viz. the Creative Common Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. This package also includes some ‘richer’ meaning representations from which the English bi-lexical DM graphs derive, viz. scope-underspecified logical forms and more abstract, non-lexicalized ‘semantic networks’. The latter of these are formally (if not linguistically) similar to Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) and are available in a range of serializations, including in AMR-like syntax.
Please use the following bibliographic reference for the SDP 2016 data:
@string{C:LREC = {{I}nternational {C}onference on
{L}anguage {R}esources and {E}valuation}}
@string{LREC:16 = {Proceedings of the 10th } # C:LREC}
@string{L:LREC:16 = {Portoro\v{z}, Slovenia}}
@inproceedings{Oep:Kuh:Miy:16,
author = {Oepen, Stephan and Kuhlmann, Marco and Miyao, Yusuke
and Zeman, Daniel and Cinkov{\'a}, Silvie
and Flickinger, Dan and Haji\v{c}, Jan
and Ivanova, Angelina and Ure\v{s}ov{\'a}, Zde\v{n}ka},
title = {Towards Comparability of Linguistic Graph Banks for Semantic Parsing},
booktitle = LREC:16
year = 2016,
address = L:LREC:16,
pages = {3991--3995}
}
The original SDP 2014 and 2015 data collections were made available under task-specific ‘evaluation’ licenses to registered SemEval participants. In mid-2016, all original data has been bundled with system submissions, supporting software, an additional SDP-style collection of semantic dependency graphs, and additional background material (from which some of the SDP target representations were derived) for release through the Linguistic Data Consortium (with LDC catalogue number LDC2016 T10).
One of the four English target representations (viz. DM) and the entire Czech data (in the PSD target representation) are not derivative of LDC-licensed annotations and, thus, can be made available for direct download (Open SDP; version 1.2; January 2017) under a more permissive licensing scheme, viz. the Creative Common Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. This package also includes some ‘richer’ meaning representations from which the English bi-lexical DM graphs derive, viz. scope-underspecified logical forms and more abstract, non-lexicalized ‘semantic networks’. The latter of these are formally (if not linguistically) similar to Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) and are available in a range of serializations, including in AMR-like syntax.
Version 1.1 was released April 2016. Version 1.2 adds the 2015 Turku system, which was accidentally left out from version 1.1.
Please use the following bibliographic reference for the SDP 2016 data:
@string{C:LREC = {{I}nternational {C}onference on
{L}anguage {R}esources and {E}valuation}}
@string{LREC:16 = {Proceedings of the 10th } # C:LREC}
@string{L:LREC:16 = {Portoro\v{z}, Slovenia}}
@inproceedings{Oep:Kuh:Miy:16,
author = {Oepen, Stephan and Kuhlmann, Marco and Miyao, Yusuke
and Zeman, Daniel and Cinkov{\'a}, Silvie
and Flickinger, Dan and Haji\v{c}, Jan
and Ivanova, Angelina and Ure\v{s}ov{\'a}, Zde\v{n}ka},
title = {Towards Comparability of Linguistic Graph Banks for Semantic Parsing},
booktitle = LREC:16
year = 2016,
address = L:LREC:16,
pages = {3991--3995}
}
We define "optimal reference translation" as a translation thought to be the best possible that can be achieved by a team of human translators. Optimal reference translations can be used in assessments of excellent machine translations.
We selected 50 documents (online news articles, with 579 paragraphs in total) from the 130 English documents included in the WMT2020 news test (http://www.statmt.org/wmt20/) with the aim to preserve diversity (style, genre etc.) of the selection. In addition to the official Czech reference translation provided by the WMT organizers (P1), we hired two additional translators (P2 and P3, native Czech speakers) via a professional translation agency, resulting in three independent translations. The main contribution of this dataset are two additional translations (i.e. optimal reference translations N1 and N2), done jointly by two translators-cum-theoreticians with an extreme care for various aspects of translation quality, while taking into account the translations P1-P3. We publish also internal comments (in Czech) for some of the segments.
Translation N1 should be closer to the English original (with regards to the meaning and linguistic structure) and female surnames use the Czech feminine suffix (e.g. "Mai" is translated as "Maiová"). Translation N2 is more free, trying to be more creative, idiomatic and entertaining for the readers and following the typical style used in Czech media, while still preserving the rules of functional equivalence. Translation N2 is missing for the segments where it was not deemed necessary to provide two alternative translations. For applications/analyses needing translation of all segments, this should be interpreted as if N2 is the same as N1 for a given segment.
We provide the dataset in two formats: OpenDocument spreadsheet (odt) and plain text (one file for each translation and the English original). Some words were highlighted using different colors during the creation of optimal reference translations; this highlighting and comments are present only in the odt format (some comments refer to row numbers in the odt file). Documents are separated by empty lines and each document starts with a special line containing the document name (e.g. "# upi.205735"), which allows alignment with the original WMT2020 news test. For the segments where N2 translations are missing in the odt format, the respective N1 segments are used instead in the plain-text format.
Preamble 1.0 is a multilingual annotated corpus of the preamble of the EU REGULATION 2020/2092 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL. The corpus consists of four language versions of the preamble (Czech, English, French, Polish), each of them annotated with sentence subjects.
The data were annotated in the Brat tool (https://brat.nlplab.org/) and are distributed in the Brat native format, i.e. each annotated preamble is represented by the original plain text and a stand-off annotation file.