Toward a Parallel Corpus of Spoken Cantonese and Written Chinese
John Lee · International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing · 2011
We introduce a parallel corpus of spoken Cantonese and written Chinese. This sentencealigned corpus consists of transcriptions of Cantonese spoken in television programs in Hong Kong, and their corresponding Chinese (Mandarin) subtitles. Preliminary evaluation shows that the corpus reflects known syntactic differences between Cantonese and Mandarin, facilitates quantitative analyses on these differences, and already reveals some phenomena not yet discussed in the literature.