TEP: Tehran English-Persian Parallel Corpus

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1. Parallel corpora are one of the key resources in natural language processing. In spite of their importance in many multi-lingual applications, no large-scale English-Persian corpus has been made available so far, given the difficulties in its creation and the intensive labors required. In this paper, the construction process of Tehran English-Persian parallel corpus (TEP) using movie subtitles, together with some of the difficulties we experienced during data extraction and sentence alignment are addressed. To the best of our knowledge, TEP has been the first freely released large-scale (in order of million words) English-Persian parallel corpus. Content Type Book ChapterPages 68-79DOI ... (Read Full Article)

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