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In this chapter we will be concerned primarily with the development of new parallel corpora, specifically for English paired with Indic languages. The focus of our discussion here will be Panjabi, though the issues we explore apply fairly equally to other Indic languages and scripts. We want to highlight a range of difficulties which face those constructing parallel corpus resources for the exploration of these languages, especially in the context of parallel corpora. In order to do this, two corpora—one of 16th century Panjabi and one of modern Panjabi—will be described, and some preliminary work on English/Panjabi alignment briefly presented.
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Singh, S., McEnery, T., Baker, P. (2000). Building a parallel corpus of English/Panjabi. 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_17
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