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Parallel Corpora for Contrastive and Translation Studies: New resources and applications
Edited by Irene Doval and M. Teresa Sánchez Nieto
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 90] 2019
► pp. 141–158

Enriching parallel corpora with multimedia and lexical semantics

From the CLUVI Corpus to WordNet and SemCor

| University of Vigo
In this chapter, I present the main characteristics of the CLUVI Corpus, an open collection of sentence-level aligned parallel corpora with over 44 million words in nine specialised domains (fiction, computing, popular science, biblical texts, law, consumer information, economy, tourism, and film subtitling) and different language combinations including Galician, Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, Catalan, Italian, Basque and Latin. Then, I present the methodology developed for extending the film subtitles section of the CLUVI Corpus with multimedia data. Finally, I discuss the resources and methods used to build the SensoGal Corpus, a SemCor-based English-Galician parallel corpus semantically annotated based on WordNet and aligned at the sentence and word levels.
Keywords: parallel corpora, multimedia, lexical semantics, WordNet, SemCor
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The CLUVI Corpus
    • 2.1Corpus description
    • 2.2Tagging the CLUVI Corpus
    • 2.3Extending the CLUVI Corpus with multimedia data
  • 3.The SensoGal Corpus
  • 4.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 20 March 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.90.09gom
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