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. 16–40
The Chinese–Spanish parallel corpus (PaCheS)
A multifunctional resource for typologically distant languages
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Abstract
Parallel corpora are a key resource for contrastive
linguistics, translation studies, and natural language processing. However,
for the Chinese–Spanish language pair, existing resources are often
scattered and poorly integrated, domain-specific, or rely on English as a
pivot language, introducing structural and stylistic biases. This paper
presents the Chinese–Spanish Parallel Corpus (PaCheS), a multifunctional bilingual resource designed to
address these limitations. The core of PaCheS consists of approximately 15
million words from 49 contemporary literary works, ensuring high-quality,
direct human translations with balanced bidirectionality. To ensure high
precision in the alignment despite the structural distance between the two
languages, the corpus employs a two-stage alignment workflow: automatic
alignment using Bertalign followed by semantic validation via LaBSE
embeddings and manual revision. Additionally, the resource is supplemented
by over 2 million bisegments from institutional and web-mined sources which
have undergone rigorous filtering and normalization. All materials are
accessible via a web interface which supports metadata filtering and
advanced queries, making PaCheS a valuable resource for research,
translation, and language learning.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Related work
- 3.Corpus design and composition
- 4.Textual preprocessing and segmentation
- 5.Alignment and manual revision
- 6.System architecture and interface
- 7.Conclusions and outlook
- Author queries
Notes References
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