title: Real-Time Identification of Parallel Texts from Bilingual Newsfeed
creator: Nadeau, David
creator: Foster, George
subject: Language
description: Parallel texts are documents that present parallel translations. This paper describes a simple method that can be deployed on a real-time news feed to create an infinitely growing source of parallel texts in French and English. Our experiment was lead on the Canada Newswire news feed. Given some of its intrinsic properties, it was possible to deploy a relatively simple text matching techniques that rely on language independent cognates such numbers, capitalized words, punctuation and new lines characters. On three week of press releases, our system correctly identified the vast majority of parallel press release. It committed only minor errors on repeated news items.
date: 2004
type: Conference Paper
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/4397/1/NRC-48081.pdf
identifier:   Nadeau, David and Foster, George  (2004) Real-Time Identification of Parallel Texts from Bilingual Newsfeed.  [Conference Paper]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/4397/