The BAF: a corpus of english-french bitext
Michel G. Simard · 1998
The BAF is a corpus of English and French translations, hand-aligned at the sentence level, which was developed by the University of Montreal's RALI laboratory, within the "Action de recherche concert'ee" (ARC) A2, a cooperative research project initiated and financed by the AUPELF-UREF. The corpus, which totals approximately 800 000 words, is primarily intended as an evaluation tool in the development of automatic bilingual text alignment method. In this paper, we discuss why this corpus was assembled, how it was produced, and what it contains. We also describe some of the computer tools that were developed and used in the process. 1 Introduction The BAF 1 is a corpus of English and French bitext: it consists of pairs of English and French documents, which are translations of one another, and whose sentences have been aligned. The corpus was produced by researchers at the CITI, a Canadian government research laboratory, as part of their contribution to the "Action de recherche con...