Toward a Comparable Corpus of Latvian, Russian and English Tweets
Dmitrijs Milajevs · 2017
Twitter has become a rich source for linguistic data.Here, a possibility of building a trilingual Latvian-Russian-English corpus of tweets from Riga, Latvia is investigated.Such a corpus, once constructed, might be of great use for multiple purposes including training machine translation models, examining cross-lingual phenomena and studying the population of Riga.This pilot study shows that it is feasible to build such a resource by collecting and analysing a pilot corpus, which is made publicly available and can be used to construct a large comparable corpus.