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This chapter describes the bilingual corpora developed in Japan. First, we discuss problems of corpus development and some corpora which are, or will be, available in Japan. Next, we describe the bilingual corpus project of JEIDA (Japan Electronics Industry Development Association). The main purpose of this project is to develop a medium-sized aligned parallel corpus of English and Japanese. Also through this project, we are able to discuss various facets involved in the development of a bilingual corpus, to do research on the alignment of Japanese and English sentences and to investigate automatic acquisition of linguistic knowledge using the developed corpus. This chapter offers an overview of the automatic alignment system developed by NTT (Nippon Telegram and Telephone Co. Ltd.), which includes the entire alignment algorithm in detail. It also describes the graphical alignment environment BACCS in which the user can see the alignment results, and easily modify the results and the user dictionary.
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Isahara, H., Haruno, M. (2000). Japanese-English aligned bilingual corpora. In: Véronis, J. (eds) Parallel Text Processing. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2535-4_16
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