Collaboratively Building Language Resources while Localising the Web

Asanka Wasala, Reinhard Schäler, Ruvan Weerasinghe, Chris Exton

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose the collaborative construction of language resources (translation memories) using a novel browser extension- based client-server architecture that allows translation (or 'localisation') of web content capturing and aligning source and target content produced by the 'power of the crowd'. The architectural approach chosen enables collaborative, in-context, and realtime localisation of web content supported by the crowd and high-quality language resources. To the best of our knowledge, this is the only practical web content localisation methodology currently being proposed that incorporates the collaborative construction and use of TMs. The approach also supports the building of resources such as parallel corpora - resources that are still not available for many, and especially not for underserved languages.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 3rd Workshop on the People's Web Meets NLP
Subtitle of host publicationCollaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources and their Applications to NLP, NLP 2012 at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2012
EditorsIryna Gurevych, Nicoletta Calzolari Zamorani, Jungi Kim
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages15-19
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781937284367
ISBN (Print)9781937284367
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Event3rd Workshop on the People's Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources and their Applications to NLP, NLP 2012 at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2012 - Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 8 Jul 201214 Jul 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
ISSN (Print)0736-587X

Conference

Conference3rd Workshop on the People's Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources and their Applications to NLP, NLP 2012 at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2012
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityJeju Island
Period8/07/1214/07/12

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