Creating a Parallel Corpus from the ``Book of 2000 Tongues''

Philip Resnik, Mari Broman Olsen, Mona Diab
University of Maryland Department of Linguistics and
Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
{resnik,molsen,mdiab}@umiacs.umd.edu

• 1 Abstract
• 2 Why this text?
  • 2.1 The nature of the text
  • 2.2 Availability
  • 2.3 Careful translation
  • 2.4 Standard structure and verse alignment
• 3 Annotation
  • 3.1 Intermediate Format
  • 3.2 Target Format
  • 3.3 Input Formats
  • 3.4 The Annotation Process
  • 3.5 Status
• 4 Research Uses for Aligned Bibles
  • 4.1 Translation and Comparative Linguistics
  • 4.2 Resource acquisition for natural language processing
• 5 Conclusion
• 6 Acknowledgments
• References
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