Trilingual aligned corpus – current state and new applications

Ludmila Dimitrova,Violetta Koseska,Danuta Roszko,Roman Roszko

doi:10.11649/cs.2014.002

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Abstract

Trilingual aligned corpus – current state and new applicationsThis article describes current state of a trilingual parallel corpus consisted of texts in two Slavic (Bulgarian and Polish) and one Baltic language (Lithuanian). The corpus contains original literary texts (fiction, novels, and short stories) in one of the three languages with translations to the other two, and texts in other languages translated into Bulgarian, Polish, and Lithuanian. A part of the texts are aligned at the sentence level. The authors propose a semantic annotation of verbs appearing in these aligned texts that will facilitate contrastive studies of natural languages. A theoretical background for the proposed semantic annotation is briefly also discussed.

Highlights

It is interesting to compare two Slavic languages and one Baltic language by describing the similarities and differences between the formal means of the three languages
Every language has specific features which make it unique within the respective language group: Bulgarian belongs to the South Slavic subgroup, Polish to the West Slavic subgroup of the Slavic language family, whereas Lithuanian belongs to the Eastern Baltic group
As a result a precise distinction between a language form and its contents can be made, e.g. a perfective verb form has two meanings: “an event” or “a sequence of events and states terminating with an event”

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Introduction

It is interesting to compare two Slavic languages and one Baltic language by describing the similarities and differences between the formal means of the three languages. The first presentation of the trilingual Bulgarian-Polish-Lithuanian corpus was announced in The paper describes new important application in contrastive studies of a Bulgarian-Polish-Lithuanian parallel corpus, partially aligned at the paragraph or sentence level.

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