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ParaCrawl: Web-Scale Acquisition of Parallel Corpora

1 Jul 2020ACL 2020 6archive 2025-07-28

Marta Ba{\~n}{\'o}n, Pin-zhen Chen, Barry Haddow, Kenneth Heafield, Hieu Hoang, Miquel Espl{\`a}-Gomis, Mikel L. Forcada, Amir Kamran, Faheem Kirefu, Philipp Koehn, Sergio Ortiz Rojas, Leopoldo Pla Sempere, Gema Ram{\'\i}rez-S{\'a}nchez, Elsa Sarr{\'\i}as, Marek Strelec, Brian Thompson, William Waites, Dion Wiggins, Jaume Zaragoza

We report on methods to create the largest publicly available parallel corpora by crawling the web, using open source software. We empirically compare alternative methods and publish benchmark data sets for sentence alignment and sentence pair filtering. We also describe the parallel corpora released and evaluate their quality and their usefulness to create machine translation systems.

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