Building and Using Comparable Corpora for Multilingual Natural Language Processing

About Pierre ZweigenbaumReinhard RappSerge Sharoff

Serge Sharoff Ph.D.  is Professor of Language Technology and Digital Humanities at the Centre for Translation Studies University of Leeds. His research focuses on Natural Language Processing including automated methods for collecting very large corpora from the Web their analysis in terms of domains genres or text quality as well as extraction of lexicons and terminology from corpora. The application domains for this kind of research in the Digital Humanities include text annotation information retrieval machine translation and computer-assisted language learning. His research stresses the inherent multilingualism of NLP which implies that tools and resources can be ported across languages by paying attention to the respective linguistic properties.Pierre Zweigenbaum Ph.D. FACMI FIAHSI is a Senior Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Digital Sciences (LISN Orsay France) a laboratory of the French National Center forScientific Research (CNRS) and Université Paris-Saclay where he has led the ILES Natural Language Processing group. Before CNRS he was a researcher at Paris Public Hospitals in an Inserm team. He also was a part-time professor at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations.  His research focus is Natural Language Processing with medicine as a main application domain. He has also designed methods to acquire linguistic knowledge automatically from corpora and thesauri to help extend monolingual and bilingual lexicons and terminologies using parallel and comparable corpora.Reinhard Rapp Ph.D. is Professor of Applied Translation Studies at Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences and is also affiliated with the University of Mainz. He has conducted EU-funded research projects at the University of Geneva the University of Tarragona the University of Leeds at Aix-Marseille University at the University of Mainz and at the Athena Research Center in Athens. His main research interests are in computational linguistics translation studies and cognitive science. His publications have dealt with unsupervised language learning from text corpora word sense disambiguation text mining thesaurus construction bilingual dictionary induction from parallel and comparable corpora and with statistical and neural machine translation.