iCompileCorpora: A Web-based Application to Semi-automatically Compile Multilingual Comparable Corpora

摘要

This article presents an ongoing project that aims to design and develop a robust and agilernweb-based application capable of semi-automatically compiling monolingual and multilingualrncomparable corpora, which we named iCompileCorpora. The dimensions that compriserniCompileCorpora can be represented in a layered model comprising a manual, a semi-automaticrnand a Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) layer. This design option will not only permitrnto increase the flexibility of the compilation process, but also to hierarchically extend the manualrnlayer features to the semi-automatic web-based layer and then to the semi-automatic CLIR layer.rnThe manual layer presents the option of compiling monolingual or multilingual corpora. It willrnallow the manual upload of documents from a local or remote directory onto the platform. Thernsecond layer will permit the exploitation of either monolingual or multilingual corpora minedrnfrom the Internet. As nowadays there is an increasing demand for systems that can somehowrncross the language boundaries by retrieving information of various languages with just onernquery, the third layer aims to answer this demand by taking advantage of CLIR techniques to findrnrelevant information written in a language different from the one semi-automatically retrieved byrnthe methodology used in the previous layer.