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In:Exploring and Exploiting Parallel Corpora of Spanish: The PaCorES corpus collection in language and translation education and research
Edited by Irene Doval and M. Teresa Sánchez Nieto
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 129] 2026
► pp. 1–14

Research with parallel corpora in the AI era

Challenges, opportunities, and complementarities

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Article outline
  • 1.Parallel corpora: Development and applications
  • 2.The PaCorES collection
  • 3.Parallel corpora and artificial intelligence: Complementarity and challenges
  • 4.Outline of the volume
  • Author queries
  • Notes
  • References
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